@Teri_Kanefield "Whenever a half dozen people ask me the same question [...]": nice illustration that the supposed faults of social media are either originated or amplified by traditional media, as nothing else makes so many people believe the exact same thing as the same time.
As Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris and Hal Roberts found in #NetworkPropaganda:
https://www.techdirt.com/2019/01/18/splinters-our-discontent-review-network-propaganda/