How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage
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How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage
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#2How is this any different from the Arab Spring? Why should this be silenced while the Arab Spring had to amplified?
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#3It's called "democracy" if it aligns with your biases, and "populism" if it doesn't.
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#4> Sometimes, the social network carries obvious fake news, such as images of bleeding protesters taken two years ago in Spain or spreads the rumors of tanks ready to move against the Yellow Vests (15,000 interactions).
This video of senseless police brutality looks in fact to be pretty real and from the latest events: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK8b4plAlJQ&feature=youtu.be . Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's lots of fake news related to the recent events but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater by saying that everything that gets shared on social networks is fake news.
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#5How is this any different from the Arab Spring? Why should this be silenced while the Arab Spring had to amplified?
The cynical answer would be: Because it's inconvenient whereas the Arab spring was inconvenient to people we didn't like.
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#6Facebook is proving to be a bestseller with the media. Not a day goes by without 3-4 of those stories becoming "news for hackers"
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#7How Facebook is Fueling the Watts Riots... Oh wait.
Re: How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage
#8How is this any different from the Arab Spring? Why should this be silenced while the Arab Spring had to amplified?
Because this is ‘bad’ while Arab Spring was ‘good’.
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#9And it could merely be that folk on the edge of French society — truck drivers, provincial plumbers, builders, deliverymen, teachers, parents — are saying `Enough is enough. Stop making our lives harder.’
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#10How is this any different from the Arab Spring? Why should this be silenced while the Arab Spring had to amplified?
Because the protests against the democratically elected leadership during the Arab spring... Oh wait.
You may hate something equally under any regime but there's a huge difference when that something is done in a democracy versus basically any other common form or government. In democracies issues can be (are?) solved at the election booth. Not so much in a dictatorship, a monarchy, or any "pseudo-democracy" (see China), etc.