The Elite

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Far from the newspaper offices and TV studios, dedicated volunteer activists, an alternative Facebook-Media -universe, could play an important role in the election campaign.

they have very different views on issues and politicians. You need not necessarily left to the main parties or the mainstream campaign groups, and to a certain degree, all of them distrust the mainstream Media .

But the work of the living room and bathtubs up and down the UK, you run the Facebook Pages attract millions of likes, comments and shares.

BBC Trending spoke to Some of them.

The Rural remain, from a small village in Herefordshire, Laura Hartman runs a Facebook page called Stop Brexit Ltd., It was More Than half a million likes, comments and shares this year with a mixture of pro-EU memes and links to news articles.

"Nobody trusts the mainstream Media ," she says - even if they sometimes left items from the major news agencies. She says, listen to BBC Radio 4 makes to want to throw the radio "out The Window " - she says, the reporting outlet is biased in favour of UK EU.

" - this is Our page for People who feel the same way," she says.

Ms Hartman used To Live in London, But moved to the countryside two years ago. She says that online trolls are accusing her of being a part of the "metropolitan elite".

"do I sound like The Elite ? No. I live in the deepest of the 'leaver Ville" now," she says. "Don't accuse me of sipping latte and avocado to eat on The South Bank. "

'It's relentless' If Ms Hartman tells us how the pro-EU Facebook ecosystem works, it sounds like you would be talking of a military command structure.

it is part of a local Facebook group called Herefordshire for the EU, and the interaction with a larger group called the West Midlands , 4 Europe, and smaller local groups such as the Ledbury for Europe (Ledbury is a small Herefordshire town) is. All of the groups, the post and repost memes, and links the whole day.

your Facebook groups are areas of discussion where everyone can make contributions. In contrast, the contributions on the Pages of how to Stop Brexit Ltd can be created only by administrators, although users can still comment.

Ms Hartman says that she uses apps like to speak loosely, and telegram, to other activists. "It is absolutely relentless," she says.

The pro-EU Facebook world includes several major anti-British EU-exit Pages - Some of which have large budgets and highly qualified Staff .

Getty image stop pro-Stay Facebook Pages (total likes, shares and comments)

8. 5 million best for the UK

8. 3 million researchers for the EU

6 million in Britain for all

source: BBC Monitoring, crowd tangle. Overall, the interactions of 1. Jan - 25. Nov 2019But there is still room for Pages to run a bath, or Shopping Centres in Leeds.

Regardless of Ms Hartman's network, setting up 61-year-old retired teacher Brendan McGrath a Facebook page called Brexit crap.

It's updated often, while buying clothes with his teenage daughter. It is collected from nearly 250,000 likes, shares and comments this year.

he says he runs The Site "balance" of Newspapers, which he sees as "heavily biased outlet" in favour of UK EU.

'I hate Facebook' In the Remainer network, the topics are always the same: Brexit are not going to negotiate poorly, Boris Johnson , is untrustworthy, and the interference in the elections is not getting the coverage it deserves.

Recent research by Media regulator, Ofcom, says smartphones passive news consumption" with the People priority to "quantity over the depth of their news feed to promote "".

Ms Hartman's side lives out of this trend, But at the same time, she thinks it is bad for society. "I'm leaving Facebook, if we stop the Leakage," she says. "I hate absolutely it. "

The Yorkshire Brexiteer Ann is a great supporter of Brexit. She runs a page called We are More Than just a star on Someone Else 's flag, you'll have regular updates while watching TV, at home, in North Yorkshire .

pinned post on the page, asks readers to "vote and work for Conservative candidates," because Mr. Johnson "offers a path to a clean Brexit".

Ann - wouldn't tell us her name - says the mainstream press fails to represent you, and millions of voters to Leave the life outside of the Big City Media bubble.

leads you through a city that she knows well. "They were written to say about the People in Darlington, as an obscure tribe," she said.

she is an active Twitter user turned seven years But their attention to Facebook following the 2016 referendum. "I was looking to reach out to ordinary Patriotic working class voters, so I she says targeted advertising of football clubs and Rugby League clubs".

Nowadays, it is based on "organic sharing" - share members, their contributions with their own networks, rather than paid ads. The Number of likes on the page is not Huge - a little More Than 10,000, But this does not tell the whole story of his influence.

"Often copied, [other Pages ], and then paste the meme and share them with other groups," she notes. It's a pattern repeated in all the social-Media copy-and-paste refers to the total number of shares and likes are only a part of viral history.

Facebook is often criticized for her role in the dissemination of false information and inappropriate content. Ann says she deletes racist or defamatory comments on your page, But it is "a lot".

she admits, she was once caught, by fake news. Last year, a story went viral challenge, Cambridge University students had "banned" remembrance day poppies. Ann deleted her post on the story when it was pointed out that as a fake.

Despite much of the negative recent press surrounding Facebook, Ann is still a fan of the page. She thinks that it allows People to Express themselves in a way that was not possible a few years ago. "It is a matter of voting is a voice-free," she says. "It is a very democratic Instrument. "

There is a Huge appetite for pro-British EU exit content on Facebook - as the largest Pages to show.

Getty image stop pro-British EU exit Facebook Pages (total likes, shares and comments)

28. 4 Million Euros To Leave. EU -

8. 5 millionGet the UK

5. 7 millionFight4Brexit

source: BBC Monitoring, crowd tangle. Overall, the interactions of 1. Jan - 25. Nov 2019But much of the energy from the grass-roots activists like Ann or Mark Childs, who works as a Managing Director of a construction company.

Mr Childs his pro-British EU-exit side of the Leak to be Peaceful, But Loud and Proud, just after the 2016 referendum. "I think that the People prefer my page to the mainstream Media , because it has a more personal sound," he says. "People want honesty. "

While Remainers say, the BBC is unfairly biased against you, Mr Childs says The Opposite . "The BBC is fully supporting biased to The Left and getting the support of the EU," he says.

JokerIt is not only a fiery partisan of traffic from posting about politics. Some People start doing it as a joke.

A page by the name of Gobby Geezer is from Mike Haliday, 60, a former Joker from Staffordshire. He usually posts funny and nostalgic-memes, which combines More Than 100,000 likes, comments and shares since the beginning of 2019.

lurking But as we Get Closer to election day, more and more election-related posts under the non-political banter. "I've said stuff Abbott, about Corbyn and [Shadow Home Secretary Diane], as well," Mr Haliday.

He says his side has "No Agenda " other than you posting things that his followers will be fun. But his sense of Humor clearly appeals to the People more inclined to pro-British EU exit and against the Labour Party .

anti-labor memes go well, especially if it's an attempt of Humor.

Mr Haliday and he says sometimes bans "idiots" from his side, But in General, the arguments can run.

"I think it's pretty funny how angry People get," he says. "I grab my bowl of popcorn and watch the comments. You can get really deal. "

CorbynistasA number of left-wing, pro-Jeremy Corbyn Pages Huge levels of engagement have been tightened, including The Daily politics, the approximately 120,000 likes.

The administrators of the page say, the BBC in Yorkshire and London and offer a "counter-narrative" to the "imbalance" of The Press .

One of the big online stories during the 2017 General elections, The Influence of a variety of similar pro-Corbyn Pages .

But in the last year, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced a major change to the Website: prioritizing contributions from friends and family about those companies, brands, and Media . This changed the landscape overnight, to fight with many sides, to preserve traffic.

The admin of a smaller left Facebook page, The Ragged Trousered Lothario, says, that The Change had a large effect.

"Facebook is not as effective, But it is still The Best method to reach People ," says The Man , the determine asked as JJ.

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Source of news: bbc.com