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What you're saying is true to a large extent. But numerically the most interacted posts on the platform are not just right-wing, but far, far right wing. See ht
by wnissen 5y ago
What you're saying is true to a large extent. But numerically the most interacted posts on the platform are not just right-wing, but far, far right wing. See https://twitter.com/FacebooksTop10 https://twitter.com/FacebooksTop10 which posts them every day. There's the occasional cute cat, NASA photo, or centrist/left-wing news source, sure. But it's 80-90% far right commentators. Whether this is due to the asymmetrical polarization of right vs. left or something that Facebook is doing is hard to say. But the fact is that the most active posts are almost all far right political commentary.
- bryan_w 5y agoThat would only measure public content. A large portion of US users have stopped engaging with public content on FB. A lot of people want to use FB to communicate with loved ones and news is just shoehorned in awkwardly. They don't engage with public content because either because it got them put in timeout or because they realized it was like shouting at a brick wall It's not surprising that the ones that still engage with public content are people you could imagine enjoying shouting at walls.
- samatman 5y agoOut of curiosity, I checked out the last twenty entries from this list. Clearly, the reigning heavyweight champion of Facebook is Ben Shapiro. It is simply dishonest to call Ben Shapiro "far right". He's a Republican. He doesn't promote military dictatorship, or "plandemics", or "the steal"; he's an Orthodox Jew who wants Republicans to be in charge. That's it. That's just bog-standard right wing. I happen to think he's a twerp; so what? So your source doesn't support your claim.