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I can't help but think it's not a coincidence that Facebook decides to produce a content report that lists the top 20 most viewed items and it just so happens t
by Traster 5y ago
I can't help but think it's not a coincidence that Facebook decides to produce a content report that lists the top 20 most viewed items and it just so happens that the top 20 items are inexplicably spam. Either facebook is enitrely dominated by spam (possible) or facebook figured out they could just boost a few items to make sure anything embarassing doens't make the short list.
- jedimastert 5y agoI mean, at that point they could just drop stuff off of the list they didn't like. Does anyone have independently verifiable data to compare against?
- Traster 5y agoThey link to the page - so if someone can say "Hold on, page X only has N likes/shares, page Y has >N likes/shares!" they'd have problems.
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoThey can just fake the numbers.
- minimaxir 5y agoThe entire existence of the Facebook Transparency report is as a counter to the Facebook Top 10 Twitter account (https://twitter.com/FacebooksTop10 https://twitter.com/FacebooksTop10) showing that Facebook tends to surface right-wing content. Facebook prefers to be known for facilitating spam than right-wing content.
- mitchdoogle 5y agoThe purpose of this report is to show widely-viewed content. Maybe the embarrassing stuff is not as widely-viewed as you imagine.
- Traster 5y agoWell what I'm saying is... if it were would facebook tell you? Or would they find a way to produce a report that tells you something else? As another commentor points out - the independent version of this consistently ends up listing right wing content.