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Facebook still crushed the numbers even with all the 'scandals'... There's no cheaper way to upend a democracy... I mean 'connect people'. https://www.cnbc.com

• dmix 8y ago
  Reddit also greatly benefits from this. I've occasionally looked deeper into top ranking articles on /r/news which sound questionable and multiple times it turned out to be completely wrong or grossly misinterpreted. Probably worse than Facebook given the speed of story submissions matters way more on Reddit than FB. So stories regularly have to be "corrected" with later posts (this happens daily on /r/nba too). My favourite was the school shooter at Parkland being called part of a "white supremacist militia group" which got 15k+ upvotes, quickly hitting the #1 spot - which means also hitting /r/all. The story (later the same day) completely discrediting his connection to the militia (despite police already saying during the timeframe of the previous submission that they found zero connection to the militia), got about ~250-500 upvotes and barely made it to the top, while having 1% of the comments. I'd bet the 250,000-500,000 people who saw the original article never saw the second (the sub has 2.5M subs). I completely stay away from the overtly political subreddits but I wouldn't be surprised if 25%+ of the top stories on those are partially or entirely incorrect.