Facebook’s new algorithm tilts left significantly
Reason #34,563,112 why I don’t use Facebook: An analysis of Facebook’s new algorithm shows that it boosts traffic to left-leaning news sources while significantly depressing traffic to conservative sites.
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.
Interestingly, up until this month there had been a steady rise in Facebook traffic for Behind the Black. This month, suddenly, that traffic has dropped.
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Reason #34,563,112 why I don’t use Facebook: An analysis of Facebook’s new algorithm shows that it boosts traffic to left-leaning news sources while significantly depressing traffic to conservative sites.
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.
Interestingly, up until this month there had been a steady rise in Facebook traffic for Behind the Black. This month, suddenly, that traffic has dropped.
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four ways of doing so:
1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation.
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From day 1, the idea of facebook has always creeped me out, I’m probably the only guy left in USA that isn’t signed up with it…never could figure out a reason to try it.
Then there are two of us.
Three.
Make that Four, I call it Lucifers living room, never been on it.
Unfortunately it’s too good of a place to share instant news/pictures/stories etc etc.
It’s the only place I know that my co workers, my HS and College classmates, my family members near and far, will all be able to see my pictures and posts of events and moments that are important to me and/or to them.
Where else can I put up a picture of my son winning his soccer or baseball games and be sure that his grandmothers, aunts, uncles, teachers, will all get to see it instantly?
Where else can I see right away how bad the storm damage and power outages are in my little town? Or find out what happened last night when I heard multiple sirens go by the house?
I also pull out my hair at some of the crap I see on there, but like it or not it’s the only widely used/universal social commons available right now.
I can only console myself by hoping I have swayed some of my liberal friends and family on FB with my numerous extremely cogent arguments I have made on their pages…. LOL!