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It is the moment of truth in politics. Why the “Facebook parties” have opposition percentages.
A poll by ARGUMENT, a polling institute of the DCMedia Group, shows which are the main sources of information on politics and government. First place at the top was to be expected, thanks to the audience. It is about television, about which I say that 75.1% of Romanians are informed. The second place, however, is occupied by the ONLINE PRESS, with a percentage of 35.9%. Social networks are only in a third, with 27.2%. This explains, perhaps, why politicians or Facebook parties, those who avoid appearing on television or in the press, always leave with a third chance in any electoral contest. Conversations with friends, family and co-workers are also an important source of information for Romanians.
Why a Facebook politician gets a third chance
A Facebook politician can only report there, in his bubble, but, since his posts that only reach the convenient bubble, there are too few people like him, the politician, to ever be a winner in an electoral race. It can never be an alternative and, realistically, you have a third chance, because there will always be two strong parties in a democracy. Their notoriety is usually encoded in any survey.
What is the true power of social media?
The ARGUMENT survey comes as clear proof that, despite the so-called power of “social networks”, the first sources of information are the fourth power of the state. Social media can generally provoke emotional reactions, but it will never offer two versions of the same reality, because the authors of Facebook have not learned that if 20 people look at a fact, there will be 20 different stories about the same thing. true, equally true, but from different perspectives.
Thus, for complete and correct information, the press, through its freedom, offers readers / viewers all the variants on a topic of interest.
The data were collected by the CATI method (Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing), in a simple random sample of 988 voting subjects (18+), nationally representative, with a margin of error +/- 3.2%, in period 7-17 August 2020.
See the FULL SURVEY here
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