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What are Facebook and other social media doing about Donald Trump?
The Guardian UK ^ | December 6, 2015 | Emily Bell

Posted on 12/06/2015 3:19:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

The US woke up on Friday to the news that Donald Trump was a full 20 percentage points ahead of Ted Cruz, his nearest rival, for the Republican nomination, and a good 16 percentage points higher than America’s top political analysts thought he would be.

Running on a platform of “making America great again”, his campaign has been noteworthy for Trump’s egregious widespread insults and total fabrications, on a gargantuan scale. The most recent of which was him claiming to have seen “thousands of Muslims” dancing in the streets of New Jersey after 9/11. No evidence exists of this, because it never happened.

Almost as disturbing to the media as the fact that you can build a successful campaign on fantasy has been the lack of spent advertising dollars.

In fascinating figures released by NBC News, Donald Trump has so far spent a mere $21,7000 on broadcast advertising, compared to the eye-watering $28.9m spent by Jeb Bush, currently languishing at 3% of the poll compared with Trump’s 36%. Trump is allowing the evolved ecology of TV coverage and the new power of the social web do the work for him, live tweeting along the way....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: censorship; elections; facebook; impotence; internet; socialmedia; trump
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If only they were half as worried about Islamic jihad.
1 posted on 12/06/2015 3:19:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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"On the internet, information streams can be isolated, almost meaninglessly decontextualised triggers - or, worse, as elements in a feed algorithmically configured by a social media platform to keep users clicking and spreading."

Got that?

2 posted on 12/06/2015 3:21:18 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Donald Trump has so far spent a mere $21,7000 on broadcast advertising...

Talk about Trump exaggerations... how much, exactly, is twenty-one thousand and seven thousand?

3 posted on 12/06/2015 3:24:12 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is libertye)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The money quote:

When it is possible to remove all traces of a campaign claim which is completely untrue, and demonstrably so, by building verifiability into the algorithm, will social platforms and search engines go ahead and do it?

Translation: The Guardian wants search engines and "social platforms" to CENSOR content.

It is as blatant as that -- and The Guardian has no compunction about demanding it.

4 posted on 12/06/2015 3:24:41 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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It’s the Grauniad. If you’re nor stupid before you read it you will be afterwards.


5 posted on 12/06/2015 3:25:12 PM PST by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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Shame they don’t do anything about Obama.


6 posted on 12/06/2015 3:25:43 PM PST by dforest
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“. how much, exactly, is twenty-one thousand and seven thousand?”

It’s like glowbull warming. Made up nonsense straight from their behinds.


7 posted on 12/06/2015 3:26:38 PM PST by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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What are Facebook and other social media doing about Donald Trump?

Voting for him.

8 posted on 12/06/2015 3:26:58 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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Trump will be the next president by a landslide. Even my liberal friends won’t vote for Hillary.


9 posted on 12/06/2015 3:28:18 PM PST by MrMarbles
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recent of which was him claiming to have seen “thousands of Muslims” dancing in the streets of New Jersey after 9/11. No evidence exists of this, because it never happened.

Oh ok the muslim uprising in britian didnt happen either, what no guns to protect yourself?


10 posted on 12/06/2015 3:29:35 PM PST by ronnie raygun (If we dont stand we will fall hard)
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I remember the days when the Communist Guardian was only part of the Loony left in England before the Internet.


11 posted on 12/06/2015 3:34:44 PM PST by Red Steel
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“Donald Trump has so far spent a mere $21,7000 on broadcast advertising...”

She’s British, poor dear..pounds sterling and all that. They get a bit mixed up when they have to deal in REAL money! ;)


12 posted on 12/06/2015 3:35:02 PM PST by Frank_2001
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That’s what I see on my face book and twitter....GO TRUMP!!!


13 posted on 12/06/2015 3:44:54 PM PST by HarleyLady27 (TRUMP SUPPORTER 100% from day ONE!!!)
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The liberals can relax about Trump for now, as there is not yet any real danger of him being elected president.


Yes, Mr and Ms Liberal, please relax. I am sure you know that the latest poll only proves one thing:

Trump is peaking.


14 posted on 12/06/2015 3:48:00 PM PST by samtheman (I will build a great, great wall on our southern border... - DT)
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To: BenLurkin

Well, at least, Ben, you can write a cogent sentence better than the Guardian. I had to read that four times before I understood it.


15 posted on 12/06/2015 3:49:39 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
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Of course the Guardian is a left wing rag that hates anything American and is itself part of the reason England isn’t England Anymore. Compare the Guardian with the Telegraph.


16 posted on 12/06/2015 3:49:56 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The most recent of which was him claiming to have seen “thousands of Muslims” dancing in the streets of New Jersey after 9/11. No evidence exists of this, because it never happened.

well, no evidence except for thousand of eye witnesses and video footage.

Other than that, nothing.

Thank God America is awakening.

A lot of people are ringing the wakeup bell.

17 posted on 12/06/2015 3:52:32 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Frank_2001

“She’s British, poor dear..pounds sterling and all that. They get a bit mixed up when they have to deal in REAL money! ;)”

Just wish there was a way to drop her a “note,” but The Guardian seems to hide any way to “make contact.”


18 posted on 12/06/2015 4:05:52 PM PST by vette6387
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“Just wish there was a way to drop her a “note,” but The Guardian seems to hide any way to “make contact.”

I wonder why? ;)


19 posted on 12/06/2015 4:18:34 PM PST by Frank_2001
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I love how irate the left is that Trump isn’t wasting money.

Why spend it if you don’t have to?


20 posted on 12/06/2015 4:34:09 PM PST by Marie (Hey GOP... The vulgarians are at the gate.)
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