[notadoc]

Does anyone think this does not happen in other countries? Maybe even in your own country (but not ours, obviously)? And not just by governments, but by political parties, foreign entities, corporations, lobbying groups, interest groups, etc, any entity with an interest in distracting, muddying, defining a narrative, or swaying opinion?

And once you consider that, consider the numerous potential reasons why social media companies appear to do nothing about the huge numbers of obvious bots, astroturfers, sockpuppets, trollfarms, etc on their services.

Interesting times we live in!

[pmlnr]

Hungary doesn't need it. The government simply mangled any opposition media.

[titanix2]

Yes it happens all the times from the newspapers. They select topics to cover or not (first biais) then cover it the want they want to fit their narratives (second level biais). In France, one of the most renowned newspaper (Le Monde) have a dedicated team (Les Décodeurs) to make posts about every politically sensitive topics. The official raison d'être of the team is to fight fake news, but the way they wrote is so fake-newish it becomes like an art performance.