Confirmed: Facebook’s Recent Algorithm Change Is Crushing Conservative Sites, Boosting Liberals
Mar 13, 2018 15:29:39 #
Confirmed: Facebook’s Recent Algorithm Change Is Crushing Conservative Sites, Boosting Liberals
https://www.westernjournal.com/author/george-upper/?ff_source=push
Facebook’s much-publicized demotion of publishers’ content in users’ news feeds has negatively impacted conservative-leaning publishers significantly more than liberal-leaning outlets, an analysis by The Western Journal has revealed.
Liberal publishers have gained about 2 percent more web traffic from Facebook than they were getting prior to the algorithm changes implemented in early February.
On the other hand, conservative publishers have lost an average of nearly 14 percent of their traffic from Facebook.
This algorithm change, intentional or not, has in effect censored conservative viewpoints on the largest social media platform in the world. This change has ramifications that, in the short-term, are causing conservative publishers to downsize or fold up completely, and in the long-term could swing e******ns in the United States and around the world toward liberal politicians and policies.
Example: New York Post vs. New York Daily News
Case in point: Two rival publishers in New York City, the New York Post and the New York Daily News, are similar in many ways, except for their editorial slants. The Post is well-known as a right-leaning outlet, whereas the Daily News has an established left-leaning slant. For example, the Daily News recently ran a headline after the Parkland shooting that read, “Brave Florida survivors plan day of action for gun sanity and to call out ‘blood on hands’ of NRA puppets.”
Headlines like that garnered the Daily News a 24.18 percent increase in traffic from Facebook, while the right-leaning Post’s traffic dropped 11.44 percent in the same time period....
These results are similar to the “surprisingly profound and partisan” findings of analysis conducted by The Outlet. However, whereas The Outlet analyzed user engagement on Facebook itself, The Western Journal looked at actual traffic driven to news websites by Facebook, which directly impacts revenue for these sites.
Why did Facebook make this change?
Campbell Brown, a former anchor on NBC and CNN who now leads Facebook’s news partnerships team, told attendees at a recent technology and publishing conference that Facebook would be censoring news publishers based on its own internal biases:
“This is not us stepping back from news. This is us changing our relationship with publishers and emphasizing something that Facebook has never done before: It’s having a point of view, and it’s leaning into quality news. … We are, for the first time in the history of Facebook, taking a step to try to to define what ‘quality news’ looks like and give that a boost.” (Emphasis added.)
Based on The Western Journal’s analysis — and an overwhelming amount of insider reports from new media publishers — it is clear that Facebook’s definition of “quality news” is news with a liberal slant....
https://www.westernjournal.com/author/george-upper/?ff_source=push
Facebook’s much-publicized demotion of publishers’ content in users’ news feeds has negatively impacted conservative-leaning publishers significantly more than liberal-leaning outlets, an analysis by The Western Journal has revealed.
Liberal publishers have gained about 2 percent more web traffic from Facebook than they were getting prior to the algorithm changes implemented in early February.
On the other hand, conservative publishers have lost an average of nearly 14 percent of their traffic from Facebook.
This algorithm change, intentional or not, has in effect censored conservative viewpoints on the largest social media platform in the world. This change has ramifications that, in the short-term, are causing conservative publishers to downsize or fold up completely, and in the long-term could swing e******ns in the United States and around the world toward liberal politicians and policies.
Example: New York Post vs. New York Daily News
Case in point: Two rival publishers in New York City, the New York Post and the New York Daily News, are similar in many ways, except for their editorial slants. The Post is well-known as a right-leaning outlet, whereas the Daily News has an established left-leaning slant. For example, the Daily News recently ran a headline after the Parkland shooting that read, “Brave Florida survivors plan day of action for gun sanity and to call out ‘blood on hands’ of NRA puppets.”
Headlines like that garnered the Daily News a 24.18 percent increase in traffic from Facebook, while the right-leaning Post’s traffic dropped 11.44 percent in the same time period....
These results are similar to the “surprisingly profound and partisan” findings of analysis conducted by The Outlet. However, whereas The Outlet analyzed user engagement on Facebook itself, The Western Journal looked at actual traffic driven to news websites by Facebook, which directly impacts revenue for these sites.
Why did Facebook make this change?
Campbell Brown, a former anchor on NBC and CNN who now leads Facebook’s news partnerships team, told attendees at a recent technology and publishing conference that Facebook would be censoring news publishers based on its own internal biases:
“This is not us stepping back from news. This is us changing our relationship with publishers and emphasizing something that Facebook has never done before: It’s having a point of view, and it’s leaning into quality news. … We are, for the first time in the history of Facebook, taking a step to try to to define what ‘quality news’ looks like and give that a boost.” (Emphasis added.)
Based on The Western Journal’s analysis — and an overwhelming amount of insider reports from new media publishers — it is clear that Facebook’s definition of “quality news” is news with a liberal slant....
Mar 13, 2018 16:36:54 #
Crayons
Loc: St Jo, Texas
eagleye13 wrote:
Confirmed: Facebook’s Recent Algorithm Change Is Crushing Conservative Sitesit is clear that Facebook’s definition of “quality news” is news with a liberal slant....
Well it's the marxist civil war against us...just Quit using F**eBooK, Googler n' Tweeterbird.
The global lucy corporate bureaucrats now openly h**e the 1st amendment. They openly h**e us.
I noticed that couple days ago there were 2 sneaky little anonymous tracking scripts here that my IP/port blocker/exterminator sniffed out that belonged to a google contractor. Just save your favorite URL's/addresses and bypass the roadblocks/censors. F**ebook has lost 25% of it's traffic already; The IT boards have been lit up with google complaints about spying. I'm using an ancient virtual machine,an ancient Firefox, others are using Waterfox,Palemoon and other older forks of Firefox/hardened/locked down with paranoid settings/old win7/XP/DOS hardened windows tweeks/time freeze locks/netlimiters and sniffers/VPN's and using duckduckgo and ixquick browsers.
A lot of folks should have been doing all this a long time ago, it takes weeks to do all this from scratch.
Mar 13, 2018 16:37:07 #
eagleye13 wrote:
Confirmed: Facebook’s Recent Algorithm Change Is C... (show quote)
Delete your account and start your own social media company. You can call it “Alt N**i”, who knows maybe it will fly and you will end up richer than god! There are a lot of angry cross burning chuckleheads out there for you to sign up.
Mar 13, 2018 17:26:07 #
Bad Bob
Loc: Virginia
Kevyn wrote:
Delete your account and start your own social media company. You can call it “Alt N**i”, who knows maybe it will fly and you will end up richer than god! There are a lot of angry cross burning chuckleheads out there for you to sign up.
Mar 13, 2018 21:03:37 #
Crayons
Loc: St Jo, Texas
Kevyn wrote:
Delete your account and start your own social media company. You can call it “Alt N**i”, who knows maybe it will fly and you will end up richer than god! There are a lot of angry cross burning chuckleheads out there for you to sign up.
It's yer own Georgi Soros who is a N**i Collaborator; He Admitted it on Live TV, Said it was the Most Exciting Time
of His Life...And the KKK cross burners are today Only One Terrorist Arm of the Demonrat Party.(((laughin)))
Mar 14, 2018 11:00:37 #
Kevyn wrote:
Delete your account and start your own social media company. You can call it “Alt N**i”, who knows maybe it will fly and you will end up richer than god! There are a lot of angry cross burning chuckleheads out there for you to sign up.
"Delete your account and start your own social media company. You can call it “Alt N**i”, who knows maybe it will fly and you will end up richer than god!" - Kevyn
SHOCKING George Soros admits N**i collaboration with no regrets
https://youtu.be/W8Id0-Lsyr0
https://youtu.be/f8Vjp89vmYQ
Mar 14, 2018 12:04:25 #
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