Facebook has about as much influence in elections as the media, bought and paid for.<br>People surround themselves with circle jerks of yes men and all collectively agree on a candidate, and are then shocked when someone other than who they, and their yes men voted for gets elected.<br><br>Facebook should take note of that and it's propensity to create echo chambers and radicalised groups because of that. If you allow people to isolate and radicalise their extreme values and beliefs, they will grow bolder believing they are right - simply because they never have to question whether they could be wrong.<br><br>But as I said before, the media pushing partisan news is no better.<br>It's all the same, it's just which brand of dogmatic crap you want to feed yourself with.