Quote Originally Posted by Croesy Blue View Post
Yes I’d take the U.K. government over those other 2 every day of the week. But they are far from perfect especially with how populism has crept in.

The thing that’s got me is the use of social media by billionaires and governments was something that should have been jumped on by conspiracy theorists etc but they seem to be the ones that get taken in by it the most easily.

It’s crazy how many of them are pro trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/techn...ublican-shift/
This interesting article talks about how facebook has become more right wing. probably also as its user base has got progressively older.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/faceboo...ns-11590507499
And this shows how they became aware they were fuelling increasingly divisive content that was weighted heavily to the right wing, and had identified steps to redress that balance, but it was shut down by the top management