Farcebook and Twitter are GOSSIP.

Their proprietors are making noises about checking for Post Truths* but they won't be deleting posts from us, the plebs. Because it will kill the genre. And the real problem is the cloned accounts that look to be real. They are spreading whatever their paymasters wish. It pays well at election time!

Newspapers and there lowly cousins - the Comics - have always been partisan. Some are unspeakable turncoats. When I was at Uni the Times was always regarded as supporting the party in power. And who owns it now? Plus ça change! But that was a formula we could equate. Farcebook is non-commutable (as the mathematicians say).

*pun acknowledged - which is more than the general cognizance.