Re:Facebook is 1-2% responsible for the election?
by jakewins on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @01:43PM
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No - and even if it was, the bias is on the Trump side. As the BF review of 9 major news pages on FB showed:
- MSM: 99.3% mostly true or no factual content
- Left: 80.9% mostly true or no factual content
- Right: 62.3% mostly true or no factual content
This is just points on the number of articles though - there is then a major leverage effect where fake articles have higher virality, meaning the systemic bias on the right is significantly higher than the ~40% of published articles if you count eyeballs on the articles.
- MSM: 99.3% mostly true or no factual content
- Left: 80.9% mostly true or no factual content
- Right: 62.3% mostly true or no factual content
This is just points on the number of articles though - there is then a major leverage effect where fake articles have higher virality, meaning the systemic bias on the right is significantly higher than the ~40% of published articles if you count eyeballs on the articles.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/partisan-fb-pages-an...