The Biden campaign blasted Facebook for this explanation.
@BillR "Facebook's platform is a mirror alright — a fun house mirror. One that has twisted and distorted our world and our politics...It is a choice to create an algorithm that feeds the distrust and polarization..."
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The FB exec said the left's frustration is also social media reflecting a dynamic rather than creating it "All center-left campaigners & politicians always ask themselves, ‘Why can't [we] seem to rile their supporters as much as right-wing populists have?’” full quotepic.twitter.com/61yJMMa5ux
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FB points out that engagement ≠ impressions and argues this is a small fraction of what ppl see (they say they're working on making that data public). But on engagement, FB is dominated by right-wing voices outside the mainstream: Dan Bongino, David Harris Jr., Blue Live Matter
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@The_DailyWire is at the top. It was the most engaged w/ news site on all of Facebook in July and August.@benshapiro's page is also dominant. In the past 90 days, it has 175 million engagements compared to just 27 million for The New York Times per@crowdtanglepic.twitter.com/LEzthZQi4x
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When liberals complain about FB/2016, conservatives often counter that Dems didn't have any problems w/ the company in 2012 w/ Obama's ppl Facebook would "sigh and say, ‘You can do this as long as you stop doing it on Nov. 7,’” an Obama official told the NYT in 2013.pic.twitter.com/le6jhBCxb9
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some people pointed out the that "1930's" quote wasn't in the piece. That was just a late night back-and-forth edits slip-up. It is back in the story now. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/26/facebook-conservatives-2020-421146 …pic.twitter.com/h6i2AYkLjb
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Former Facebook employee who was an embed for the Trump 2016 campaign and working for the Dems this cycle ->https://twitter.com/jimmyeatcarbs/status/1309893105840201728?s=20 …
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another bit on this. There are two partisan battles on Facebook right now. This article is about organic content/earned social media. But the paid media battle is also fierce/pricey Trump camp has spent over $109 million on FB ads since 2018 Biden over $64 million
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What!?!?
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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The 30s you say?
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Hmmmm...
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