To repeat a basic fact, for a democracy to function hinges on the voters being able to get factual, responsible news reporting from the media. In the past the media were newspapers first, later on came radio, after that came TV, and now we are well into the age of the Internet. The regular media are well known to be biased in their reporting, which is more than bad enough, but a large fraction of people now depend on social media for a lot of their news. After all, it's so easy to tune into the Net whenever you feel like it to see what's being said on the major platforms that have hundreds of millions of followers. The dramatically evident bias against conservative sources in these platforms has become impossible to deny for any who look at the facts of what has gone on there, as shown below. (Of course those on the Left just say no, these platforms are being "responsible" in filtering out the "bad stuff". Reminds me of Pravda and Izvestia and of course media in China today.) We all have to hope that somehow Congress will get motivated to find a way to force these companies to either print everythiing or filter everything the same way. Right now they are damaging to the information flow a free society depends on. --Del
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