Conservatives have been responsible for the top stories trending on Facebook for several weeks now and our delicate friends on the Left can’t seem to deal with it. In fact, they have started claiming Facebook is a right-wing site (stop laughing) or that it’s been broken.
And all because the site finally seems to be an equal playing field for all political ideals.
Patrick Ruffini explained it well:
Facebook feels like it's having an existential crisis and facing criticism for being "broken" because the content that does well on the platform doesn't match the aesthetic sensibilities of the BosWash corridor. https://t.co/PzU2wwxm36
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) November 20, 2018
In other words, the Left is flipping out because more people are reading Conservative media.
We wrote about Nate Silver earlier:
An alternative hypothesis is that they have weird hang-ups and have never been able to grasp that "short-term engagement on Facebook" is a poor and non-robust proxy for most of their business objectives, especially with publishers trying to actively game the algorithm.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 20, 2018
Yes, we evil Conservatives are far more concerned with gaming the Facebook algorithm than we are writing stories people want to read.
Nate is onto us.
I could be wrong but it feels to me that if Clinton won the election but Facebook was still a cesspool we would not be having this discussion
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) November 20, 2018
Of course, we wouldn’t.
There's guilt/shame around the engineers for possibly helping Trump win, (even if they played no role) and this filters out to the broader Silicon Valley ecosystem and makes compelling copy for media.
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) November 20, 2018
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But Facebook! Trump! Eleventy!
Soooo..when the top stories are from the left, Facebook is working fine..ehen the stories come from more conservative folk, Facebooks algorithm is broken?? I’d honestly expect nothing less from the left at this point.. pic.twitter.com/3TJRcICwLV
— David Laine? (@DavidLaine) November 20, 2018
Right?
it also shows how old FB users are
— John Howard (@manyspaceships) November 20, 2018
Yes, because only old people are Conservatives.
You know that face you make when the person in front of you at McDonalds doesn’t know what they want to order and you’re like, ‘IT’S MCDONALDS MAN, JUST ORDER A FREAKIN’ BIG MAC’!
Yup, just made that face.
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