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For what it is worth, it’s been shown that the most popular and most shared posts for years have been basically 80% extreme conservative ones. See here: https

For what it is worth, it’s been shown that the most popular and most shared posts for years have been basically 80% extreme conservative ones. See here: https://twitter.com/facebookstop10?s=21 https://twitter.com/facebookstop10?s=21 That said, this is no defense of left wing propaganda. I’m not saying it doesn’t exist, just that by the numbers Facebook is mostly right wing users and that extreme right wing material is more popular. Interestingly the popular right-wing material tends to be non-party related. Probably because sharing extreme right viewpoints on a generally conservative site is how you get clicks. It’s profitable, even if your organization has no horse in the race.

luckylion 6y ago
> by the numbers Facebook is mostly right wing users and that extreme right wing material is more popular. Is that the case, or is it just that the extreme right wing posts get more traction than other posts. Like, are the extreme right wing posts more popular than all other posts combined, or are they getting e.g. on average 10 likes where other posts only get 7? The source on Twitter seems to only look at pages (i.e. curated content), not what people share. Since they're doing it manually according to the bio, the sample must be pretty small.