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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-facebook-ads-helped-elect-trump/
I wonder if there's also a generational aspect to the Facebook influence, and whether its influence will wane as today's 'youth' get older. What I mean is that 'kids' today are apparently not heavy users of Facebook, and assuming they don't convert to it en masse (why would they?), it won't be able to spread (dis)information to them as they age. But that's not to say that other forms of web-scale communication won't have a role to play (i.e. something other than Facebook might still be effective in driving the interests of the #fakenews people). However, for Facebook itself, perhaps we might have seen the height of its power (to subvert)? Shame it has helped fuck the world with Trump and Brexit though.