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If yellow journalism can stampede a nation into war (e.g. "Remember the Maine") through presenting a slanted view of the situation, well, Facebook and however i
by ThrowawayR2 5y ago
If yellow journalism can stampede a nation into war (e.g. "Remember the Maine") through presenting a slanted view of the situation, well, Facebook and however it chooses to editorialize what it allows to be presented to its users has a vastly bigger audience than the newspapers of old. There's nothing "absurd" about that.
- PontifexMinimus 5y agoIf future, as social media gets more powerful, they will be able to determine who gets elected. No-one will be able to get elected if they go against them. Once that happens, Google and Facebook will never have to pay their share of taxes ever again!