Politics has gone wrong. Is digital technology to blame?
The article is pre-US elections so the author talks about how unlikely it would be that Donald Trump would become president (little did he know). But still it is a relevant argument as it talks about Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn. Here is a quote from the article about new and digital media "Digital technologies make it far easier than it has ever been to find out what people want – their likes and dislikes " this shows how audiences could take it for granted and not think to much about what they see and where they see news for example on the internet.
In my opinion i do think the Internet is very influential for younger people in comparison to people in the older age demographics as they didn't grow up with the Internet being there main source of news. Therefore younger people trust it more and they may believe more of the stuff they find on the Internet then say 40 year old and above would. This can also apply to people in different socio-economic groups, for example people in the ABC1 category would be more inclined to trust the traditional news platforms more, for example newspapers and TV, because they've been fact checked more. People in C2DE groups may be more prone to view there news on social media and this is a problem because that is probably the biggest group full of people with different views and values who interpret what they see on the internet either or real or fake in different ways.
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