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What are you talking about? The Daily Caller is one of Facebook’s official fact checker partners: https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/facebooks-fact-che

What are you talking about? The Daily Caller is one of Facebook’s official fact checker partners: https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/facebooks-fact-checking-operation-partnering-division-tucker-carlsons-toxic-daily https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/facebooks-fact-c... And the top performing content on Facebook is dominated by right wing media figures: https://mobile.twitter.com/FacebooksTop10 https://mobile.twitter.com/FacebooksTop10

AnthonyMouse 6y ago
> The Daily Caller is one of Facebook’s official fact checker partners That doesn't tell you how much they weight it compared to the others. > And the top performing content on Facebook is dominated by right wing media figures This is misleading for the same reason as Fox News being the most popular cable news network. There is only one right-leaning cable news network, whereas CNN and MSNBC split the left-leaning viewership even though together they're larger than Fox. The same thing happens with links. Fox covers a story with their take, it gets N shares, CNN and MSNBC each cover the same story with their take and each get M/2 shares, and then Fox is at the top of the chart even if M > N.
- xadhominemx 6y ago
  The conservative content that is popular on Facebook is not news, it’s people like Dan Bongino, Ben Shapiro, Mark Levine... and it’s not like there is a shortage of right wing media personalities. You have to remember, a huge proportion of engagement on the Facebook Blue app are boomers and folks outside of large cities.
- tzs 6y ago
  The Facebook top 10 is dominated by a large set of right wing media figures, with it varying quite a bit which subset appears during any given period. Your splitting theory does not work.
  - AnthonyMouse 6y ago
    The number of right wing media figures is smaller than the number of left wing media figures, which means they each get a larger proportion of their base. It's the same thing.

AnthonyMouse 6y ago

> The Daily Caller is one of Facebook’s official fact checker partners That doesn't tell you how much they weight it compared to the others. > And the top performing content on Facebook is dominated by right wing media figures This is misleading for the same reason as Fox News being the most popular cable news network. There is only one right-leaning cable news network, whereas CNN and MSNBC split the left-leaning viewership even though together they're larger than Fox. The same thing happens with links. Fox covers a story with their take, it gets N shares, CNN and MSNBC each cover the same story with their take and each get M/2 shares, and then Fox is at the top of the chart even if M > N.

xadhominemx 6y ago
The conservative content that is popular on Facebook is not news, it’s people like Dan Bongino, Ben Shapiro, Mark Levine... and it’s not like there is a shortage of right wing media personalities. You have to remember, a huge proportion of engagement on the Facebook Blue app are boomers and folks outside of large cities.
tzs 6y ago
The Facebook top 10 is dominated by a large set of right wing media figures, with it varying quite a bit which subset appears during any given period. Your splitting theory does not work.
- AnthonyMouse 6y ago
  The number of right wing media figures is smaller than the number of left wing media figures, which means they each get a larger proportion of their base. It's the same thing.