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You both seem right to me about Facebook. Someone posted a link to my blog on the RAW Fans FB page earlier today, to little apparent interest (my site stats show zero hits coming from Facebook – update: some hits from FB now). In fact the FB page looks swamped by discussions about whether the “censorship” of Jordan Roguean or Joe Peterswald or whoever, by the abstract noun, “liberals”, “is” “actual fascism”, as if that’s the only legitimate way to frame “what is happening politically”. I could perhaps understand a real discussion about “censorship”, but it makes me suspicious when the same mediocre personalities (who appear promoted all over FB) keep popping up, framed as the victims of generalised “libtards”. Nobody mentions the lawsuits brought against people like George Lakoff or Carole Cadwalladr, etc, in an attempt to harass them publicly and financially, so as to shut them up. Probably because in those cases, the perpetrators aren’t a vague abstract noun, but specific Russian businessmen with names and links to Trump (in Lakoff’s case) or RW millionaire Brexiteers with names (in Cadwalladr’s case). Those cases apparently don’t register with the algorithms, or aren’t on the lists of the trolls and bots posting (or “liking” or “sharing”) this static low-info din.

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