Popular Posts

Tags

Monday, 14 November 2016

US Election 2016: Trump's 'hidden' Facebook army

Facebook image
Donald Trump's spectacular victory in the US presidential election on 8 November took many by surprise.
Polls seemed to significantly underestimate his support and few pundits gave him a chance.
But many Trump voters, it turned out, were hiding in plain sight - on Facebook.
Thousands of home-grown Trump support pages populate the social networking site. They are a mix of closed and open groups. Most have a few hundred members. But many have thousands. And a few, like American Patriots for Donald J. Trump, have hundreds of thousands of followers.

No comments:

Post a Comment