Greta75
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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer Interesting. Right wing organisations already do have their giant media outlets, as we all know. Why can't they buy up their own social media platforms too? They are slow in catching up in that Arena, but they will get there. For me, I see platform as Twitters as a neutral ground where right and left wing could mingle and read each other opinions and news, as it spreads and go viral. Without facebook or Twitter, this means, right wing people only go read right wing things and left wing people only read left wing things. Which is not what I think is good for knowledge over all. I think people need diversity and variety and THEN form their opinions from there. But most people don't choose to read from all avenues. I know many staunch huff post followers locally who would refuse to read anything from Fox for balance. I mean, if you read extreme left stuffs all day, it would be good to balance it out with some extreme right stuffs as well right? But they would see an Fox News Article, if it was circulating in Facebook or Twitter. Which is good. So yea, if in the future, such neutral platform starts taking obvious sides. The right really needs to figure this out. Because even Google is sometimes accused of making their Googling algorithm to hide Right news and bring Left news forward. All these modern social medias have alot of power to influence and shape things to their own agenda and direction, because we are all now so reliant on them.
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