“The sheer size of the impact of a meme like the Ice Bucket Challenge was the first big indication that Facebook had drastically changed the structure of popular culture. Two years later, we are finally beginning to see the consequences of this all around the world.” Buzzfeed: This Is How Facebook Is Radicalizing You.

+ “American News, which on Tuesday posted stories like ‘Michelle Obama Exposed for the Pervert She Really Is’ (the website calls her Moochelle in its posts), ‘The View Is About to Get Shut Down,’ and ‘BREAKING: Hillary Clinton to Be Indicted… Your Prayers Have Been Answered,’ has 700,000 more subscribers than The Washington Post on Facebook.” Ben Collins spends 48 Hours in Facebook’s Unreality.

+ And there’s this: Fake news is more viral than real news.

+ Ben Thompson: Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug.

+ Molly McHugh on how we built our bubble: “Experts are worried we won’t be able to get ourselves out of this cycle – that the level of discourse happening on social media is, in the most internet-friendly terms, a dumpster fire from which there’s no escaping.”

+ Twitter has suspended a bunch of alt-right accounts as it looks to do more to stem the rise of hate speech on the service.