Posted on 08/28/2020 10:09:53 AM PDT by Theoria
Right-wing influencers are dominating the political discussion on Facebook, raising questions about whether it will translate into electoral success in November.
Listen, liberals. If you don’t think Donald Trump can get re-elected in November, you need to spend more time on Facebook.
Since the 2016 election, I’ve been obsessively tracking how partisan political content is performing on Facebook, the world’s largest and arguably most influential media platform. Every morning, one of the first browser tabs I open is CrowdTangle — a handy Facebook-owned data tool that offers a bird’s-eye view of what’s popular on the platform. I check which politicians and pundits are going viral. I geek out on trending topics. I browse the previous day’s stories to see which got the most reactions, shares and comments.
Most days, the leader board looks roughly the same: conservative post after conservative post, with the occasional liberal interloper. (If you want to see these lists for yourselves, you can check out @FacebooksTop10, a Twitter account I created that shows the top 10 most-interacted-with link posts by U.S. Facebook pages every day.)
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What world is the author on????
“Right-wing influencers are dominating the political discussion on Facebook...”
What if the New York Times is the real Twilight Zone?
And all of it in spite of FB’s censorship of Conservatives. The unfiltered feed must be off-the-page good in favor us.
Conservatives don’t do Faceplant.
Apparently they do, and in huge numbers.
What means is that there a few on FB that haven’t been shut down yet
“I’ve been obsessively tracking how partisan political content is performing on Facebook, the world’s largest and arguably most influential media platform. Every morning, one of the first browser tabs I open is CrowdTangle”
Imagine living this Effin losers life?
I would shooooot myself in the head.
Three times like Arkancide.
Well. Remember that liberals are lazy. Most too lazy to hold jobs. Putting up videos is actual work. And requires decent cameras, sound gear, etc. These thing are difficult to afford when you are living on mommy’s allowance in the basement.
And since liberals can’t take criticism they quit making videos pretty quickly when the do try. This will always skew the numbers.
Twitter, as well, has been instrumental as a platform to record and bear witness to all the rioting, looting, and destruction taking place in the name of BLM. Without Twitter, all we would have would be the "peaceful protests" that the MSM is reporting.
And these Twitter feeds are starting to affect the polling.
Putting up good videos and memes is hard work, but sharing them isn’t.
So there is that.
OTOH lots of conservatives including myself have left the platform.
Some prefer to go on with life as though face book doesn’t exist.
Heck no
Any right winger that is savvy has learned to operate in stealth mode on that patform! Data and his legion will shut you down!
“Once he sees this in the Slimes Zuckerberg will put a stop to THAT.”
Not so sure about that. Remember Zucks secret meeting with Trump last year?
Zuck is seeing the signs “Eat the Rich” and guillotines. Zucks relatives went through this before.
I have noticed FB having a conservative pro Trump slant the last 6-8 month..I thought it was me.
“Right-wing influencers are dominating the political discussion on Facebook,” -— I have old friends who are liberal, and newer ones and relatives who are conservative. The vast majority of what I see on FB is liberal/leftist.
See post #16
Hm...maybe it's because conservative posts contribute intellectually to the discussion as opposed to the banal "shut up you white-privileged racist". I'm sure after awhile repeating the same brainless drivel becomes exhausting even for committed leftists.
F-Book is enemy occupied territory. Conservatives should be there operating as guerrilla fighters. It’s a target-rich environment.
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