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Similar to how I give my electricity provider money, and they give me electricity.
Now FB clearly sees themselves as (let's be honest) a "power broker" or "rain maker". Not the same as "utility" or "network connection" or "conduit".
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Of course there is "conservative news" and "liberal news". Liberal news is things that happened, things that will happen, etc. Conservative news is a made up stories, things that never happened, etc. Example of trending "conservative news": Obama bans the phrase "Merry Christmas". E.g. http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines-2015/barack-obama-bans-...
I think that's an overly broad and biased characterization. I find it hard to believe that an entire half of the voting spectrum is made up of liars and charlatans.
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> conservative stories which aren't corroborated by mainstream sources. Conservativism is mainstream. Part of the problem is that many people who are not conservative have been lead to believe that it is a marginal/extreme ideology. It is not. It may be a majority ideology, but it is at a bare minimum a the second most common. For what it's worth I don't consider myself a conservative.
Last I checked (can't find the stats on mobile), conservatives represented 65+% of the vote in the U.S. However, they are significantly less likely to vote, many living in a rural area.
That's basically never been even close to the case. Polling from earlier this year had a 37%/35%/24% conservative/moderate/liberal split [1], with "conservative" having a high since 1992 of 40%.
[1] http://www.gallup.com/poll/188129/conservatives-hang-ideolog...
But let's stay focused on the topic, Facebook.
The issue is that FB advertises itself as "conduit" or "network connection". You log in, communicate with people and the site tools, FB runs ads on your eyeballs, etc. Similar to how I give my electricity provider money, and they give me electricity. Now FB clearly sees themselves as (let's be honest) a "power broker" or "rain maker". Not the same as "utility" or "network connection" or "conduit".