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    Mary McNamara: Roseanne Barr debacle is Exhibit A on why Twitter and the like are the new mainstream media

    by Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Jun 05, 2018 4 minutes

    When a racist tweet by Roseanne Barr leads to the cancellation of her top-rated show 24 hours later, when YouTube tightens its monetization policy to howls of protest, when Snapchat prepares to expand into India, when Vogue offers tips on how to perfectly Instagram your wedding, when Facebook ditches "trending news" while testing a "breaking news" feature, it's time to reconsider the term "social media."

    Post-congressional hearing, Facebook did its best to revive the "social" brand, launching a cloying ad campaign that pledges to return us to a simpler time when "friends" were actually friends and accounts weren't being harvested for information used

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