The whole tenure of the article is that right wing organisations manipulate social media outlets to put across their message. Her key obsession is Google and Facebook and she tries to argue these forces control the minds of people and prevents them from independent thought
She cites Trump, Brexit and oddly Holocaust denial.
She omits to mention certain facts like for example regarding Trump - Clinton spent twice as much on a media campaign as he did. What do you think she did with the money? Spend it on petrol pump advertising?
She also conveniently overlooks the Pro EU campaign which included a £9 million taxpayer funded brochure of "facts" none of which have materialised.
The problem, I'm afraid, is she misses the point. Trump won, Brexit happened not because of manipulation but the voters who were not influenced by anything and did not turn out to vote. It is why Clinton lost for sure. People like her cannot understand or accept that "dumb" uneducated people have a view and an opinion that dares to differ from an elitist liberal media
Her articles on holocaust denial is just bizarre. She pretty much says a lot of people are stupid and just buy theories they see in manipulated media. She fails to see the irony that she is doing exactly the same in her biased, liberal, condescending tripe
No she doesn't say anything of the sort. She says a group of billionaires- including a successful hedge fund owner/ manager ( not ours. I used the word successful), who all know each other - and Farage - have access to enormous amounts of information on people like us.
They can use this information to send fake news to anyone they choose. They choose people in, say, swing states according to what they browse and if they think they can appeal to these people's emotions. This doesn't mean the victims are poor, or even uneducated or stupid, just that they could be susceptible to having their emotions played with. They then feed the selected victims bullshit stories just before the election, that cannot be reputed in such a short time, to raise enough doubts about the opposing candidate to cause the victims to either change their preference or not vote at all.
The fact that with Trump and Brexit the voters defied the polls at the last minute, hints that something may have influenced a small, but significant percentage of them.
Even more so when you see that Hilary actually won the election by 3 million votes, but lost the electoral college.
Trump profited enormously from free advertising by saying controversial things, and by being a major reality star and household name before he even ran. That and Bannon and co's information and direct targeting meant that Trump's fewer dollars were better spent.
I don't know if all the facts in the brochure will not occur after Brexit has happened.
The elites are not just what you call the liberal media. They include Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, Mercer, Zuckerberg, Tillerson, and all the cronies in the Trump swamp. The finger you are pointing is directed at MSM and the EU ( Juncker being the targeted boo-man by many people as a convenient scape goat to justify the self-harm done by Brexit ), whilst you scoff at a journalist who is pointing out some very worrying facts. The billionaires have won in the USA and in the U.K..
If there is a resistance movement, count me in.