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> Perhaps, yet the person who gets the most FB page views is apparently Ben Shapiro. Shapiro, even if he is at the top, only represents a very small fraction o

> Perhaps, yet the person who gets the most FB page views is apparently Ben Shapiro. Shapiro, even if he is at the top, only represents a very small fraction of the overall attention space people see compared to everything else that's on Facebook. This is a cherry picked example at best. Also Shapiro is not anti-establishment by any definition of the word, see his stance on BlackRock buying up real estate as a recent example. Also outside debating naive socialist college students, he's not really an intellectual powerhouse outside variations of "it's a free market, they can do what they want and it will turn out fine; here's my cherry-picked facts", which is a narrative Facebook has a direct interest to promote. Anyway I digress. > I see all those topics in my FB feed so at least from my perspective I have no idea what you're complaining about. Your personal anecdotes are irrelevant. Also I never said they were outright banned, I said algorithmically manipulated. For instance Facebook is actively suppressing topics that are discussing vaccines in a negative light, such as discussion on long term effects which we obviously don't know since they just came out.

disgruntledphd2 5y ago
If personal anecdotes are irrelevant, then what are you basing your opinions on? Presumably, you work at FB otherwise you wouldn't know this ;)
gumby 5y ago
> Shapiro... is a cherry picked example at best. Hardly -- look at Roose's posts about CrowdTangle.* He is in the top 10 in every report, usually multiple times. Mostly the top 10 is Shapiro, Bigino, Fox etc. * Good collection at https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/technology/facebook-data.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/technology/facebook-data.... But if you don't like the NYT you can simply read the daily reports on twitter yourself (up to the date when FB removed access to the tool). It reports the opposite of what you claim.
- TeeMassive 5y ago
  > He is in the top 10 You are conflating being at the top with having a majority of the attention volume. And even if this kind of content had the majority of the volume, the presence of popularity doesn't negate efforts of suppression. If anything that proves that Facebook is more popular with Boomers as opposed to the younger audience, which is also the kind of demographic these talk heads attract. The story at least proves that FB has a need to for certain content suppression and has failed doing so, at least in the eyes of the leftists public opinion.

disgruntledphd2 5y ago

If personal anecdotes are irrelevant, then what are you basing your opinions on? Presumably, you work at FB otherwise you wouldn't know this ;)

gumby 5y ago

> Shapiro... is a cherry picked example at best. Hardly -- look at Roose's posts about CrowdTangle.* He is in the top 10 in every report, usually multiple times. Mostly the top 10 is Shapiro, Bigino, Fox etc. * Good collection at https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/technology/facebook-data.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/technology/facebook-data.... But if you don't like the NYT you can simply read the daily reports on twitter yourself (up to the date when FB removed access to the tool). It reports the opposite of what you claim.

TeeMassive 5y ago
> He is in the top 10 You are conflating being at the top with having a majority of the attention volume. And even if this kind of content had the majority of the volume, the presence of popularity doesn't negate efforts of suppression. If anything that proves that Facebook is more popular with Boomers as opposed to the younger audience, which is also the kind of demographic these talk heads attract. The story at least proves that FB has a need to for certain content suppression and has failed doing so, at least in the eyes of the leftists public opinion.