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The US is proveably 50/50-ish Unless Facebook has a strongly biased audience, it seems likely that their algorithms should represent the population. 68% pro T

The US is proveably 50/50-ish Unless Facebook has a strongly biased audience, it seems likely that their algorithms should represent the population. 68% pro Trump does not.

dragonwriter 6y ago
> The US is proveably 50/50-ish The “ish” does a lot of work there. > Unless Facebook has a strongly biased audience is If it doesn't, it would be one of the few media sources that didn't. Why wouldn't it?
- Sharlin 6y ago
  Facebook is also not a US-only site. And the international audience almost certainly leans (heavily?) anti-Trump. So there's that.
  - TheIronYuppie 6y ago
    Good point! That makes this even worse for US representation
- TheIronYuppie 6y ago
  > The “ish” does a lot of work there. In what way? The US is proveably 51.3% Democrat, 46.5% Republican. I was reducing significant digits because I don’t know the specific split for people who didn’t vote. > If it doesn't, it would be one of the few media sources that didn't. Why wouldn't it? Not sure your source on this one. Even Fox is only 53% Republicans, and MSNBC is only 62% Democratic (https://pos.org/whos-watching-a-look-at-the-demographics-of-cable-news-channel-watchers/ https://pos.org/whos-watching-a-look-at-the-demographics-of-...). This blows them away.
sparrish 6y ago
Facebook's audience does not reflect America's population. It is older and more conservative so I'm actually surprised by it's only 68% of the links. Young people stay away from Facebook by the droves... that is until they get married and start having kids. By then they're older and <gasp> more conservative.
- tjr225 6y ago
  I think its much more likely that people who are on Facebook with young kids right now are simply the people in my(30s) cohort who never deleted their account they signed up for back in the late 2000s.
luxuryballs 6y ago
Trump probably got close to 95 million votes, the mainstream media and the activist ballot workers/officials are great at deception and most Americans aren’t dumb enough to have thought Joe Biden would make a good President, especially after how great Trump was doing. It’s pretty obvious what happened in 2020 was more than just a perfect storm, the swamp drained Trump while saying “we can’t allow anyone to audit election integrity”.
- TheIronYuppie 6y ago
  Source please

The US is proveably 50/50-ish Unless Facebook has a strongly biased audience, it seems likely that their algorithms should represent the population. 68% pro Trump does not.

dragonwriter 6y ago

> The US is proveably 50/50-ish The “ish” does a lot of work there. > Unless Facebook has a strongly biased audience is If it doesn't, it would be one of the few media sources that didn't. Why wouldn't it?

Sharlin 6y ago
Facebook is also not a US-only site. And the international audience almost certainly leans (heavily?) anti-Trump. So there's that.
- TheIronYuppie 6y ago
  Good point! That makes this even worse for US representation
TheIronYuppie 6y ago
> The “ish” does a lot of work there. In what way? The US is proveably 51.3% Democrat, 46.5% Republican. I was reducing significant digits because I don’t know the specific split for people who didn’t vote. > If it doesn't, it would be one of the few media sources that didn't. Why wouldn't it? Not sure your source on this one. Even Fox is only 53% Republicans, and MSNBC is only 62% Democratic (https://pos.org/whos-watching-a-look-at-the-demographics-of-cable-news-channel-watchers/ https://pos.org/whos-watching-a-look-at-the-demographics-of-...). This blows them away.

sparrish 6y ago

Facebook's audience does not reflect America's population. It is older and more conservative so I'm actually surprised by it's only 68% of the links. Young people stay away from Facebook by the droves... that is until they get married and start having kids. By then they're older and <gasp> more conservative.

tjr225 6y ago
I think its much more likely that people who are on Facebook with young kids right now are simply the people in my(30s) cohort who never deleted their account they signed up for back in the late 2000s.

luxuryballs 6y ago

Trump probably got close to 95 million votes, the mainstream media and the activist ballot workers/officials are great at deception and most Americans aren’t dumb enough to have thought Joe Biden would make a good President, especially after how great Trump was doing. It’s pretty obvious what happened in 2020 was more than just a perfect storm, the swamp drained Trump while saying “we can’t allow anyone to audit election integrity”.

TheIronYuppie 6y ago
Source please