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I think the only reason your comment gets down voted is because it's biased only to one side. I see about what Jon Oliver states as if I remember correct 1/2 as many conspiracy posts from about Trump (Edit: I meant to write conservatives write 2x as many conspiracy posts as democrats. This was not represented in my previous sentence.). It's annoying.

I guess to accurately represent things on Facebook you'd have to say something like conspiracy posts about AOC, Bernie, and Dan Chrenshaw. 2x1 Ratio.

You could have also said, "political conspiracy theories". I get annoyed by conspiracies on either side personally, but I can see how some people would see more of one than the other based on their friends.

Edit: Re-read some of what I wrote and I want to clarify, this isn't me saying i down-voted you. Just an observation.

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It was a joke based on what people often say about FB. I don't use their platforms.

Totally agree.

it really goes to show how different all of our feeds are based on who we are friends with (and of those, who we interact with the most). Anecdotally, I have 3 people who will share any "conservative" attack meme (at this point, I don't even know if it counts as conservative so much as just outright attacking Democrats. Sometimes it reads more like an attack for the sake of attacking than a statement of belief in something different. Kind of weird. Part of me wonders if maybe some of these accounts do conservative attacks and some do liberal attacks in an attempt to get shares and what not with no political interest whatsoever: effectively acting as an arms dealer of the meme variety.) they can get their hands on and of my friends of a more liberal view, it is mostly policy things they share (pro-choice, anti-rape, etc.). There's one dude that is pretty anti-Trump, but his for the most part stand out as an exception. Most of the ones I see referencing Trump directly (if it isn't during a period where he did something that Democrats felt was highly suspect) are more in support of him than anything.

Which is why I have to refrain from taking an "over the top much?" slant when people post the pro-Trump/victim of the left type memes as I don't see a ton of attacks on him directly, but then again, their feed could be totally different from mine so who knows?

I've got a few people in my feed who just dump on the right no matter what. I've fact checked them a little bit. Again it's about a 2-1 for me fact checking my right leaning and left leaning friends (typically older). But I keep all of them on there just to have an ear to the ground.

Yeah, I appreciate the various view points and items shared in my feed from both conservative/liberal viewpoints have been wrong (almost consistently so).

I think the real bummer is when you present the actual video of what the person says, and the response is essentially “yeah? Well, they still suck” or something in that ballpark. I have zero issue with someone not liking another person’s views, but a lot of it is just outright libel.

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