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No Evidence of Anti-Conservative Bias by Social Media, New Study Asserts
Variety ^ | February 1, 2021 | Todd Spangler

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 ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Society
KEYWORDS: 1984; academicbias; anotherstudy; bias; bs; censorship; conservative; conservatives; facebook; fakenews; gaslighting; gaslightmedia; jgrantsims; liars; nyunyucknyucks; paulmbarrett; socialmedia; thedailygaslight; twitter; youtube
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To: EdnaMode

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


41 posted on 02/01/2021 7:09:14 PM PST by semimojo
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To: kiryandil

And Dennis Prager was wrong to quote the 10 commandments because it discusses murder.


42 posted on 02/01/2021 7:09:25 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: EdnaMode

Gaslighting-R-Us


43 posted on 02/01/2021 7:14:31 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far greater danger from authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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To: cockroach_magoo

lolz


44 posted on 02/01/2021 7:15:11 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: EdnaMode

The same NYU author, Paul Barrett, authored another study last summer calling for more aggressive censorship of social media:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-technology-202/2020/06/08/the-technology-202-nyu-report-calls-social-media-titans-to-stop-outsourcing-content-moderation/5edd3806602ff12947e865d2/%3foutputType=amp


45 posted on 02/01/2021 7:17:55 PM PST by CaptainMorgantown
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To: EdnaMode

that is because they have all been scrubbed. Can’t have conservative bias without conservatives


46 posted on 02/01/2021 7:19:48 PM PST by DEEP_e
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To: EdnaMode
I decided to check out the rest of their "experts".

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

47 posted on 02/01/2021 7:23:09 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: max americana
NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights

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.

48 posted on 02/01/2021 7:26:08 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: EdnaMode

If that great conservative bastion of education NYU says there’s no bias it must be true.


49 posted on 02/01/2021 7:36:26 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: EdnaMode

And Bill Barr determined Epstein committed suicide. If you disagree you will be banned.


50 posted on 02/01/2021 7:44:53 PM PST by bray (Pray for fake President Biden)
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To: Salamander

Wow and you type so well!


51 posted on 02/01/2021 7:45:30 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: EdnaMode

Oh, PUH-LEASE!


52 posted on 02/01/2021 7:45:41 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: EdnaMode

NYU should be shutdown permanently for showing that they are nothing but stupidity.


53 posted on 02/01/2021 7:47:04 PM PST by Revel
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To: EdnaMode

The Ministry of Education says that the Ministry of Propaganda is not lying......../s


54 posted on 02/01/2021 8:01:18 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: AndyTheBear
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.

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,

55 posted on 02/01/2021 8:02:13 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: EdnaMode

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?


56 posted on 02/01/2021 8:09:54 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: SaveFerris
Having a thumb helps but using the shift key is a real bitch.


57 posted on 02/01/2021 8:16:24 PM PST by Salamander (There's Nothing For It But To Sit And Wait For The Hard Men To Get Me Out....)
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To: AndyTheBear
Seems this might be a case of equal opportunity vs equal results. Conservatives tend to win on the internet when given an equal opportunity, because we have better arguments, better evidence, and we win fair debates.

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."

58 posted on 02/01/2021 8:18:22 PM PST by x
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To: Salamander

On the internet, nobody knows you’re a salamander.


59 posted on 02/01/2021 8:20:22 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: Disambiguator

*until you up and confess it

:D


60 posted on 02/01/2021 8:22:11 PM PST by Salamander (There's Nothing For It But To Sit And Wait For The Hard Men To Get Me Out....)
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