lizkat
Watching March roll out real winter
This is a pretty good read. Turns out that when it comes to news feeds and such, Facebook starts looking more and more like a right wing silo... and how that came to light was by way of journalists using analytical tools that Facebook itself had provided when pressured to be more transparent. Oops.
There are some related tweets embedded in the piece (and doubtless more forthcoming thanks to Kevin Roose of the NYT having got some attention on Twitter today).
Anyway, this one's just a sample
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1415300851149717505/
“At first, Facebook was happy that I and other journalists were finding its tool useful…but the mood shifted”
Since last year, New York Times tech columnist Kevin Roose has been using Facebook's data analytics tool, CrowdTangle, for a purpose the company doesn't like — to show that the posts with the most engagement on Facebook are far more likely to come from right-wing commentators than mainstream new…
www.niemanlab.org
There are some related tweets embedded in the piece (and doubtless more forthcoming thanks to Kevin Roose of the NYT having got some attention on Twitter today).
Anyway, this one's just a sample
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1415300851149717505/