{"id":260678,"date":"2025-10-03T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&p=260678"},"modified":"2025-10-02T11:18:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T10:18:21","slug":"facebook-fables","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/facebook-fables\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook fables"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new Guardian report<\/a> shows how Facebook has become a hotbed of toxic far-right sludge, with just a few overlapping groups serving up racist and xenophobic misinformation to an unwary but ever-growing public audience. ‘Regular people interacting with this content often don\u2019t know that they\u2019re part of some playbook or agenda’ which uses ‘a narrative such as “the mainstream media is lying to you”, or “scientific institutions are looking to censor people”‘. Fearing state lies and manipulation, they fall prey instead to far-right lies and manipulation.<\/p>\n

On the plus side, young people have largely stopped using Facebook<\/a>, because their parents are on it. So maybe Farage-mania will age out, while a saner generation realises that the real problem is capitalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-260678","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/260678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}