But I've come to think that the
rise of
fake news — and of the cheap - to - run, ideologically driven aggregator
sites that are only a few steps up from
fake — has weaponized those filter bubbles.
The survey of 925 Americans was conducted as new revelations surfaced that the company connected to the 2016 Trump campaign, Cambridge Analytica, inappropriately harvested personal information on millions of Facebook users The sharp
rise in negative feelings is a significant departure from Facebook's standing prior to the 2016 election, when the
rise of so - called
Fake News and polarizing content led to calls for the company to take greater responsibility for the content on the popular social media
site — or face government regulation.