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The evidence just doesn't support your claim that Facebook predominantly censors content from the political right. Facebook produces disproportionately more eng

The evidence just doesn't support your claim that Facebook predominantly censors content from the political right. Facebook produces disproportionately more engagements for right-wing sites[1]. This is reflected in the best performing content on the site -- after the first debate, 9 of the top 10 posts were right leaning [2], which is a regular occurrence. [1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/09/10/facebook-offers-a-distorted-view-of-american-news https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/09/10/facebook... [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/elections/debate-facebook-sharing/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/elections/debat...

macspoofing 6y ago
>Facebook produces disproportionately more engagements for right-wing sites Bull. America is a country where any given election 50% vote Democrat and 50% vote Republican. Look at the chart. Look at the total number of left-wing vs right-wing sites. I bet if you add those up, total left-wing engagements will dwarf the number of total right-wing engagements. Looks to me that engagement is skewed towards left-wing, it's just that there are way more left-wing outfits so individual share is lower. Which makes sense, there is one major right-wing news network, Fox News, there's like 10 that are center-left/left wing which have to share the audience.
drak0n1c 6y ago
The existence of popular engagement with a subset of allowed right-wing content does not mean there is no censorship of other right-wing content. If most of the political content on a platform by volume is right-wing, then it actually wouldn't be surprising if most of the censored political content would also be right-wing. The most engaged with articles on HN are technology-related. That fact does not magically prove that there is also zero moderation of technology-related articles.

macspoofing 6y ago

>Facebook produces disproportionately more engagements for right-wing sites Bull. America is a country where any given election 50% vote Democrat and 50% vote Republican. Look at the chart. Look at the total number of left-wing vs right-wing sites. I bet if you add those up, total left-wing engagements will dwarf the number of total right-wing engagements. Looks to me that engagement is skewed towards left-wing, it's just that there are way more left-wing outfits so individual share is lower. Which makes sense, there is one major right-wing news network, Fox News, there's like 10 that are center-left/left wing which have to share the audience.

drak0n1c 6y ago

The existence of popular engagement with a subset of allowed right-wing content does not mean there is no censorship of other right-wing content. If most of the political content on a platform by volume is right-wing, then it actually wouldn't be surprising if most of the censored political content would also be right-wing. The most engaged with articles on HN are technology-related. That fact does not magically prove that there is also zero moderation of technology-related articles.