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I am still unconvinced Facebook played any role in the outcome of the 2016 election. It played a role in the the form of the discussion but the actual outcome it didn't.

Most people vote based on some very personal and everyday issues. Things they experience in their lives not discussions on facebook no matter how many times they like it.

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> Most people vote based on some very personal and everyday issues. Things they experience in their lives not discussions on facebook [...]

I'd say exactly the opposite. The politically empassioned folks I meet lately (on both sides) are always quicker to talk about a meme than a concrete issue.

E.g. Koch brothers, Shariah Law

So arent you saying the same as me?

I'd say that's the opposite.

The borderline conspiracy theories that seem popular are pretty different than "the garbage needs to be picked up on time" locally important issues that I thought you were talking about.

Not sure what you are commenting on

Even if it's Facebooks fault somehow. It's still the peoples fault who think Facebook is news. Nobody ever said that still people assume it (appearantly. My social circle never did)

There is no escaping it played a significant role, when it's where a significant portion of people got their news.

http://www.journalism.org/2016/02/04/the-2016-presidential-c...

That's a different discussion. Whether they were actually swayed by it is a very very different discussion.

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