In article <vf3fln$27b5r$1@paganini.bofh.team>, bork@bork.net says...
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> A new study finds that Facebook is not censoring conservatives despite
> their repeated attacks
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> Right-leaning pages consistently earn more interactions on Facebook than
> left-leaning pages
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> Written by Kayla Gogarty & Spencer Silva
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> Research contributions from Carly Evans
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> A new nine-month Media Matters study of Facebook pages that regularly post
> about American political news looked at two different measures of
> performance and found that right-leaning pages outperformed left-leaning
> pages or performed similarly to them. Right-leaning pages consistently
> earned more average weekly interactions than left-leaning pages, while both
> types of pages earned similar engagement rates -- a measure of performance
> that accounts for interactions as well as numbers of page likes and posts.
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> Key findings include:
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> Right-leaning pages earned more interactions than left-leaning and
> nonaligned pages. Between January 1 and September 30, right-leaning
> Facebook pages tallied more than 6 billion interactions (reactions,
> comments, shares), or 43% of total interactions earned by pages posting
> about American political news, despite accounting for only 26% of posts.
> Pages without a political alignment drew fewer interactions even though
> they created the most total posts. Our group of nonaligned pages, many of
> them from traditional media outlets, posted more than 3.2 million times --
> roughly 59% of total posts -- yet accounted for just 30% of total
> interactions.
> Left-leaning pages were less active than right-leaning or nonaligned
> pages. These pages posted the least, had the fewest number of page likes,
> and earned the fewest interactions.
> Right-leaning and left-leaning pages had similar interaction rates, a
> performance metric that measures engagement of a Facebook page in relation
> to the number of page likes and how frequently it shares posts. In other
> words, although right-leaning pages drew more interactions overall, they
> had similar performance to left-leaning pages when accounting for left-
> leaning pages' fewer page likes and posts.
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> Without any evidence, conservatives repeatedly claim that they are
> being censored
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> For years, right-wing media and conservative politicians have claimed
> that social media and tech companies are biased against them and censor
> their content, despite copious data proving otherwise. In a new study,
> Media Matters again found no evidence of this alleged censorship. In fact,
> we found that right-leaning pages consistently earn more interactions than
> left-leaning or ideologically nonaligned pages.
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> One recent example of how right-wing media deploy these censorship
> claims came on October 14, when Twitter and Facebook limited the
> circulation of a controversial and unverified New York Post story about
> Hunter Biden (son of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden) that was
> ostensibly reported from hacked materials. President Donald Trump,
> Republican lawmakers, and right-wing pundits immediately started alleging
> that social media companies were showing systematic bias against them by
> limiting their ability to share the story.
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> The argument isn?t new. For years, conservatives have claimed that
> Facebook scrubs right-leaning content from its site and that its algorithm
> directs traffic away from pages with a conservative bent. As Media Matters
> and others have demonstrated again and again, no such bias exists.
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> In fact, recent reporting suggests the opposite might be true.
> Facebook?s algorithm is known to amplify content that evokes an emotional
> response, reward sensational and partisan content, and contribute to
> polarization. When Facebook tweaked its algorithm to reduce partisan
> content in 2017, the platform reportedly throttled traffic away from
> progressive news sites like Mother Jones while explicitly avoiding taking
> similar actions against conservative outlets like The Daily Wire and other
> ?right-wing ?junk sites.??
> New study finds that right-leaning pages are actually outperforming
> left-leaning and nonaligned pages in terms of average weekly interactions
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> In this latest study, Media Matters used CrowdTangle data to compile
> and analyze millions of posts from right-leaning, left-leaning, and
> ideologically nonaligned Facebook pages that were posted between January 1,
> 2020, and September 30, 2020. All the pages in this study regularly post
> about American political news.
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> The study found that right-leaning pages and left-leaning pages
> consistently outperformed ideologically nonaligned pages in terms of
> average weekly interactions. Right-leaning pages consistently earned more
> average weekly interactions than either left-leaning or ideologically
> nonaligned pages. These findings are consistent with findings from previous
> Media Matters studies that analyzed the performance of Facebook pages that
> post about American political news.
> Right-leaning pages earned more total interactions than left-leaning or
> nonaligned pages, despite accounting for only a quarter of posts
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> Between January 1, 2020, and September 30, 2020, right-leaning pages
> earned over 6 billion interactions, which is 43% of all engagement on posts
> from the Facebook pages in our study. In comparison, left-leaning Facebook
> pages earned over 3.5 billion interactions, and nonaligned pages earned
> over 4.2 billion interactions.
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> Total interactions earned on posts from Facebook pages that post about
> U.S. political news
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> Even though right-leaning pages garner consistently high engagement on
> posts, they do not post nearly as much content as nonaligned pages. Right-
> leaning pages shared over 1.4 million posts, or almost 26% of all posts
> from Facebook pages posting about U.S. politics in our study. Nonaligned
> pages shared over 3.2 million or nearly 60% of all posts.
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> Left-leaning pages are less active than either right-leaning or
> nonaligned pages. Posts from left-leaning pages accounted for less than 16%
> of posts from the pages in our study and earned only 26% of all
> interactions.
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> Engagement data on posts from Facebook pages that post about U.S.
> political news
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> The discrepancy in average weekly interactions ? with right-leaning
> pages higher than left-leaning and nonaligned pages ? was consistent over
> the nine-month study period, with the exception of five weeks in which
> nonaligned pages narrowly earned more interactions. Nonaligned pages also
> generally earned more average interactions each week compared to left-
> leaning pages.
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> Average weekly interactions on Facebook pages that post about U.S.
> political news
> Right-leaning and left-leaning pages consistently had higher
> interaction rates than nonaligned pages
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> Interaction rate is a performance metric that measures engagement of a
> Facebook page in relation to the number of page likes and how frequently it
> shares posts. Between January 1, 2020, and September 30, 2020, right-
> leaning pages had an average interaction rate of 0.64%. Left-leaning pages
> had a slightly higher rate of 0.75%, but this higher interaction rate was
> not maintained over the full nine-month period. A likely explanation for
> this higher rate is the smaller overall size and activity level of left-
> leaning pages relative to the dominance of their right-leaning
> counterparts.
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> These interaction rates for ideologically aligned pages are three times
> higher than the average interaction rate (0.21%) of nonaligned pages over
> the same time period. The disparity between average interaction rates for
> partisan and nonpartisan pages was consistent throughout the studied time
> period, with right-leaning and left-leaning pages maintaining similar
> weekly average interaction rates while nonaligned pages had much lower
> rates.
> Methodology
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> Using CrowdTangle, Media Matters compiled a list of 1,773 Facebook
> pages that frequently posted about U.S. politics from January 1, 2020, to
> August 25, 2020.
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> For an explanation of how we compiled pages and identified them as
> right-leaning, left-leaning, or ideologically nonaligned, see the
> methodology here.
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> The resulting list consisted of 771 right-leaning pages, 497
> ideologically nonaligned pages, and 505 left-leaning pages.
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> Using CrowdTangle, Media Matters compiled weekly leaderboard data for
> the largest 400 pages for each ideology for a nine-month period that
> started on January 1, 2020, and ended on September 30, 2020.
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> We reviewed the data for these 1,200 pages, including total
> interactions (reactions, comments, and shares), total posts, pages likes,
> and interaction rate. CrowdTangle calculates the interaction rate of a
> group of pages by dividing the total number of interactions (reactions,
> comments, and shares) earned on all posts from the pages by the total
> number of posts from the pages, and then dividing by average page likes for
> the pages. For this calculation, average page likes is based on the page
> likes for each page at the end of the time frame.

Bullshit. Facebook is owned by a paid for commie shill. They shadow ban
the right all the time.