[radu_floricica]

You're really saying that after reading the second half of my comment? Mainstream media is overwhelmingly progressive and not shy in being unsubtle, but somehow brexit did it all by being so freaking brilliant that it manipulated even more... somehow.

[ceejayoz]

We can pretend “mainstream media” in the UK doesn’t have things like The Sun in it if you like; no one asserts The Guardian was part of the Brexit full-court press.

You do these things with social media bots, trolls, misinformation, etc.

Brexit wasn’t brilliant. It was an empty slate people could project their worries on. That’s why actual implementation, where details mattered more than slogans, is where the difficulty lay.

[radu_floricica]

You know, the attitude of "plebes are plebes, they should be protected and carefully told what to think so they don't to stupid things like Brexit" is very un-democratic.

They had access to both sides' discourse. They voted. They made a choice.

Instead of taking this information and learning from it, you're just blaming the very progressive-leaning social media.

Oh, why am I even trying. It's ok, it was Big Corp, they're the ones to blame.