content: Very, very wrong about the Clinton part.  The Clinton campaign paid an embarrassing amount of money to FB and Google for their "support".  Facebook and Google (to a smaller degree) modified their algorithms during the 2016 election to have a very, VERY heavy pro-Clinton, anti Trump bias.  The FB "newsfeed" used to be status updates from your connections, or when they uploaded photos, or when their relationship status changed, or personal details were updated, etc. During the election, all it became was post after post of WAPO, Onion, CNN, MSNBC et al. articles either bashing Trump, praising Clinton, or talking about how assured Clinton's victory was.  Even if your friends posted something that was pro Trump, it would never actually display in your news feed.  It was like this way for months on end.  It became a shitty, shitty news aggregate instead of whatever the hell it started as.  It was a concerted effort to manipulate their userbase.  Very similar to the changes that Reddit underwent.  I thought these changes would be reverted after the insanity of the election, but nope.  Still the same kind of manipulation at play. Google's changes were more subtle.  Twitter's I can't comment on since I don't use that site.