Facebook's role in Brexit

British investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr gave a passionate speech at the TED conference in Vancouver.

Carole is the Observer journalist who helped expose Cambridge Analytica’s use of Facebook user data despite the social network’s threat to sue her newspaper if it published the story.

In her speech, she challenges Facebook to acknowledge the extent to which it has become a tool for the spread of misinformation, and calls out Mark Zuckerberg specifically for refusing to testify before parliaments around the world.

Automation with bots can be used to generate youtube views and fake facebook likes. Another alternative to the bots are click farms which use a large group of low-paid workers to generate likes or views to create viral content. This enables enabled individuals, lobby groups, companies or even nation states to create fake news through viral contents.

There are many companies offering fake views/likes, here is an example below:

https://www.socialmedia.garden/pricing

Fake news is not new,:

The proliferation of fake news in both social media and mainstream media makes a strong argument for the inclusion of media literacy, critical thinking and healthy debate to be part of a good education system to ensure our democracy is not hijacked.