This is all over the news. Has it been covered here? Since I couldn’t find it, just in case, I thought I’d post a link concerned with how the Right Wing planted misinformation that spread all over the Facebook empire. When a couple of Bernie-or-busters I know claimed authoritatively that Hillary Clinton supported climate deniers, I smelled a rat. As someone who gets email alerts from several environmental groups, including the Sierra Club, I knew this was false. I also suspected that they had been getting their information from Right Wing misinformation sites. Being a resolute non-Facebook user, the obvious never occurred to me. Now I know. And now I know it was a mere drop in the ocean of false facts that millions bought as gospel.
But misinformation was only part of the gift that Facebook (and Twitter) gave Trump. It was a huge fund raiser.
If you are a Facebook and/or Twitter user, I think you should spread the word (if you haven’t already). Being a responsible social media user means that any information that someone posts should be researched first. Due diligence is essential, because chances are, many of the people who see the post won’t be bothered to dig further.
I apologize in advance if this is a duplicate post.