Shooshmoo
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Do you think there is a danger in an entity, like Facebook, being an arbiter of what is and is not fake news?
We are already seeing the effects of this Russia paranoia. People are using Abolish ICE and BLM movements to say that they are pushed by Russian trolls, not by legitimate grassroots activists. A certain segment of Hillary twitter already engages in the "Bernie is a Russian agent" fear mongering.
The danger, which we see with your horseshoe response, is that any political disagreement from the establishment is dismissed because the establishment wants to smear leftists as either "just like fascists" or russian agents.
I suppose there is a danger in an entity, like Facebook, being an arbiter of what is and what is not fake news -- but it's their website and a lesser danger than Russian bots manipulating elections by using fake news to sway rubes on both sides, or the Trump administration (or the government, generally) being the arbiter of what content should or should not be on a website like Facebook or twitter. What's the alternative?
You need to realize there is a world beyond the twitterverse and what Hillary twitter is saying.
In any event, as ITC said, this has nothing to do with the Mueller probe and Hillary twitter would be saying the same things regardless. And I've seen what Bernie twitter looks like (and looked like before the election) -- not in a place to point fingers. If the endgame is that the Russian probe should end, is fake news, or should be ignored, because Hillary twitter is saying mean things about Bernie twitter, I think that is some rubish rubbish (TM)
However, it does make sense that Russian bots would be, and perhaps have been, all over Bernie/Stein twitter -- they know they can sow discord and potentially affect elections by getting the left's rubes to abstain or vote for the "claimed" other side. On you to root that out if it's there.