The first of a regular feature on journalistic garbage in all its richness and diversity.
“Could fake news infect the Victorian election?”, The Age asks today in a typical clickbait effort.
It starts slowly, then picks up steam — with plenty of huffing and puffing along the way:
Social media, particularly Facebook, has emerged as a powerful tool for politicians, who can use it to project their message to voters without filtering it through journalists.
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