Posted on 02/01/2021 6:45:53 PM PST by EdnaMode
Internet platforms like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are not systematically biased against conservatives or right-wing viewpoints in their content moderation practices, according to an analysis from NYU researchers.
According to the report released Monday, “False Accusation: The Unfounded Claim that Social Media Companies Censor Conservatives,” the allegation that social media companies engage in anti-conservative bias “is itself a form of disinformation: a falsehood with no reliable evidence to support it.”
“No trustworthy large-scale studies have determined that conservative content is being removed for ideological reasons,” the NYU report says. “Even anecdotal evidence of supposed bias tends to crumble under close examination.”
In fact, the report, produced by the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, cited evidence that social media platforms have actually amplified right-leaning voices algorithmically to reach “unprecedented audiences,” often giving conservatives greater reach than liberal or nonpartisan content creators. The report analyzed data from multiple sources, including past reports like a 2020 study from Politico and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and social-data analytics firms CrowdTangle and NewsWhip.
Former President Donald Trump and a legion of U.S. conservatives have complained loudly that Big Tech somehow treats right-leaning users and content differently than others on the political spectrum.
(Excerpt) Read more at variety.com ...
The top-performing link posts by U.S. Facebook pages in the last 24 hours are from:
1. Fox News
2. Fox News
3. ForAmerica
4. Ben Shapiro
5. The New York Times
6. RFA Burmese
7. Breitbart
8. VOA Burmese News
9. Franklin Graham
10. Ben Shapiro— Facebook's Top 10 (@FacebooksTop10) February 1, 2021
And Dennis Prager was wrong to quote the 10 commandments because it discusses murder.
Gaslighting-R-Us
lolz
The same NYU author, Paul Barrett, authored another study last summer calling for more aggressive censorship of social media:
that is because they have all been scrubbed. Can’t have conservative bias without conservatives
CrowdTangle, Facebook buys CrowdTangle, the tool publishers use to win the internet Nov 11, 2016
NewsWhip, Paul Quigley and Andrew Mullaney.
Looking at Quigleys Twitter, he's an Irish leftist control freak. Paul Quigley Twitter
Andrew Mullaney left NewsWhip in 2018 and isn't biying the Covid "We're all gonna die!" Andrew Mullaney
Surely that is a misnomer. It is the Stern Center for the Human Rights Business.
Just sayin - either you support human rights or you don't. And if free speech is a human right, you don't need to study this. They censor speech, ergo, they deny human rights. But it's a business, so they get a research grant to pay themselves to study it.
If that great conservative bastion of education NYU says there’s no bias it must be true.
And Bill Barr determined Epstein committed suicide. If you disagree you will be banned.
Wow and you type so well!
Oh, PUH-LEASE!
NYU should be shutdown permanently for showing that they are nothing but stupidity.
The Ministry of Education says that the Ministry of Propaganda is not lying......../s
I wanted to post that snippet myself - then saw that you already had, AndyTheBear.
My response to the report:
Only if you call misquoting, quoting out of context, lampooning, mocking, and ridiculing conservatives "giving them greater reach."
Regards,
NYU LOL LOL! By the way, anyone notice the lack of protests against Biden even though there’s a hell of a lot more to protest against Biden than there was in Trump in 2017?
Something like that. They are saying that because Trump used social media more and had more followers that "social media" wasn't biased against conservatives, but rather magnified their influence. But the criticism of "social media" doesn't relate to the potential of the medium but the actions and attitudes of the people who run and control it.
The NYU study criticized Facebook and Twitter's censorship of the Hunter Biden story as "decisions wrapped in mystifying processes."
Right, that's one way to find no bias: to simply call it the result of "mystifying processes."
On the internet, nobody knows you’re a salamander.
*until you up and confess it
:D
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