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Honest question: does anyone think this would have happened if Twitter and Facebook did not exist?
by alangibson 6y ago
Honest question: does anyone think this would have happened if Twitter and Facebook did not exist?
- vlunkr 6y agoObviously it's all conjecture, but I don't think so. Essentially all the mainstream news sites have not gone along with the claims of fraud. The only place Trump has an audience for all his nonsense is on Twitter. And Twitter marking all his tweets as misleading does nothing to deter his more extreme followers. I really hope they just ban him someday.
- bobthepanda 6y agoOAN is out there doing the dirty work on TV that even Fox will not do.
- alpha_squared 6y agoI'd posit that outlets like OAN wouldn't exist without social media platforms hinting that there's a market opportunity to be exploited.
- dillondoyle 6y agoI think there is a decent chance: Fox News, talk radio Limbaugh types, Rupert Murdoch media, and even the likes of CNN have all been fomenting this for ratings and $ for decades. Fox and right radio have pushed insane junk that millions actually believe. It created the widespread tinder before social media.
- awak3ning 6y agoIf Social media and the news media were not around to radicalize and polarize Americans, this would not have happened along with many other events this year :)
- shrimp_emoji 6y agoIncluding making someone wonder when reading your username[0] xD 0: https://greatawakening.win/ https://greatawakening.win/
- mFixman 6y agoThe President himself is directing his followers to attack the US capitol, and HN blames Twitter and Facebook.
- 082349872349872 6y agoYugoslavia had neither Twitter nor Facebook, and that got much worse...
- sudeepj 6y agoHuman history is filled with civil wars, violent revolutions, angry protests, etc much before internet & social media. Social media is a catalyst and internet is the mega-phone/amplifier which makes lot of things precipitate quickly than before.