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"I suspect most of us on here are pretty entrenched and know the way we're going to vote anyway and I'm delighted to say, although I have an account, I avoid Facebook unless absolutely necessary, which it rarely is."
I agree and I'm not a fan of any advertising, although I really don't believe that advertising influences people more than people sharing memes with inaccurate information...


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Talking of inaccurate information or 'fake news' as your friend and mine from across the pond would say...

https://talkradio.co.uk/news/james-cleverly-hits-back-kay-burleys-empty-chair-interview-19110632527?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1573036159

and for balance:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/tories-accused-of-doctoring-video-of-sir-keir-starmer-being-quizzed-on-brexit-a4279596.html

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Si Wooldridge says...
"I agree and I'm not a fan of any advertising, although I really don't believe that advertising influences people more than people sharing memes with inaccurate information..."
It depends what you call advertising really, if you boil it down to someone paying someone else to get a fixed message across, that would include a lot of things which are advertising but less obviously so.

If you make a Corbyn Hates Jews meme and it's organically picked up and spread, that's not advertising but can have some effect on the outcome of the election. But if you are a political party, or organisation with something to gain, and you pay a company or person to create and spread memes, I'd count that as advertising and far more insidious when it's not been organically spread but by bots or other organisations manually pushing it.


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That's not a clickbait video at all is it, oh no.

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It's just a video of some comedy...

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Kay Burley's view of the empty chaired Cleverly.


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Si Wooldridge says...
"It's just a video of some comedy..."
Anything with "X destroys Y" or "Cute girl does Z" is pure clickbait no matter what it's content is.

Those are two reasons out of ten not to click on things, you won't believe what's at number seven!


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Robee J Shepherd says...
"Anything with "X destroys Y" or "Cute girl does Z" is pure clickbait no matter what it's content is."
Fair point, but it's just a couple of minutes and quite funny...

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Snaps says...
"Kay Burley's view of the empty chaired Cleverly."
And the other side of that argument...

https://twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/1192506818678931458

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