http://www.businessinsider.com/here-are-the-most-and-least-trusted-news-outlets-in-america-2014-10/
Posted on 10/31/2014 11:02:58 AM PDT by leapfrog0202
Facebook is mining its data of users' posts to find out how users feel about certain candidates or issues and sharing that data with ABC News and BuzzFeed for use in their 2016 reporting, the social-networking site will announce on Friday.
The data will be gathered from the posts of Facebook users in the United States 18 and older, classifying sentiments about a politician or issue as positive, negative or neutral. The data can also be broken down into sentiments by gender and location, making it possible to see how Facebook users in the key primary states of Iowa or New Hampshire feel about certain presidential candidates, or how women in Florida feel about same-sex marriage.
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BuzzFeed will focus on using the data around issues in ongoing stories, and will feature the data in their news app.
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Despite the Beltway reliance on social media sites like Twitter, a recent Pew study found that 48 percent of Americans get their political news from Facebook, compared to just 14 percent on YouTube or 9 percent on Twitter.
"We are always looking for new and interesting ways to tell stories and engage with viewers. This rich trove of data will allow us to do just that -- helping us identify the most important trends and the most stimulating conversations happening around the 2016 election cycle," ABC news president James Goldston said in a statement.
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Some people have lots and lots of Facebook ID's. Log in, post. Log out. Log in under different user name, post something different. I'm not getting your point.
As Bill Belechik once said, “I don’t use Tweety, My Face or Yearbook”.
There’s nothing they can get from me.
Which suits me just fine!
CA....
Deleted my facebook account..any conservative that still has one supports Zuckerberg and amnesty
I’ve resisted getting a Facebook account…I don’t want to share my views on anything with strangers, and I most assuredly do not want to be “data mined.”
Unless they specifically segregate how each ID acts, what it likes, what it looks at, they’ll all end up roughly the same.
The NSA takes care of the rest.
Yes, they will.
Let them work for it, tho...
CA....
Belechik took the words right out of me own mouth! ! ! !
Yes and Maxine has been riding along in the back seat the whole way. Which party is she a member of? Did she switch parties and oppose this?
It is pitiful the people Blacks choose to represent them.
Oh, she's not agin it. She was very excited by the idea.
Yeah...but we could turn it around, too.
What if every registered FReeper created one fake FB user account, listed it as in one of these key swing states, and then posted up something against gay marriage or abortion or whatever twice a day?
Hundreds of thousands of posts, from key swing states, every day, totally skewing the LSM reporting.
Reason 1,835 to not make account with that freak Zuckerberg’s toy.
Great plan. Now they will know what all those blondes in bikinis are thinking.
This is a plan which will fail to be of any use.
Would not make any difference. The ultimate goal of all of this is information manipulation. Just like the testing they did recently, they will flood your homepage with the articles they want you to see. They will eliminate anything contrary to those selected ideas.
Yes I know this sounds like tin foil hat type stuff but I was told this was coming years ago and nothing I’ve seen says we’re going in the opposite direction.
http://www.businessinsider.com/here-are-the-most-and-least-trusted-news-outlets-in-america-2014-10/
Good to know, thanks.
I’ve never had an account.
Didn't know that, but I still won't do Facebook or Twitter.
It seems that Netflix does this too because as I gave 1 star reviews to a bunch of Lefty propaganda (and propagandists), it suggested Palin and other right wing videos to me.
lol
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