[lisarea]

It's plausible bollocks, though, as long as you don't think about it too hard.

I was just thinking about this recently, watching people blaming the election on Reddit, which, hey, I don't like Reddit, either, but it was weird how they glossed right over Facebook and Twitter. Any time you have a bunch of random goombahs discussing things, you're going to get confident, plausible bullshit explanations like this, but overall, Reddit is a hell of a lot better at correcting than Facebook at least, because there's a better chance that someone will come along and correct them. You can put all kinds of bullshit on Facebook targeted to small, credulous audiences with much less chance that there's someone there to rebut it.