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“Researchers found that while left-leaning and centrist publications get much less engagement if they publish misinformation, the relationship is reversed on the far right.” @GiladEdelman on a new study on the Facebook news—and fake news—ecosystem. https://t.co/QISxHcAG9K
— Caitlin Kelly (@caitlin__kelly) March 3, 2021
Left-leaning and centrist publications get less engagement if they publish misinformation but news organizations that regularly publish false right-wing material get up to 65 percent more engagement than the ones that don’t. https://t.co/2DN1rlreVR
— Nieman Lab (@NiemanLab) March 3, 2021
Avg. Facebook engagement is only ~0.09%. But, pages with political content do much better.
— Rand Fishkin (@randfish) March 4, 2021
Fake news can get near 50% engagement. But, seems to only work for right-wing outlets. Left and center-leaning pubs underperformed when sharing misinformation.https://t.co/WqR1S4KplF pic.twitter.com/sFEb9pufSy
wow, this chart. the world's largest platform for misinformation tuned to cause an insurrection. nice work, Facebook. /1 https://t.co/ghTBxcjVpi pic.twitter.com/OsbjWKt2vu
— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) March 3, 2021
Normal or truthful doesn't do well on social media. "When we look at interactions per follower of a news page from the perspective of political leaning, we observe that content from sites rated as politically “extreme” tends to generate more interactions."https://t.co/B629F1YUi2
— Robert Young Pelton (@RYP__) March 3, 2021
the Facebook algorithm is rigged to spread extremist right-wing propaganda https://t.co/LSU0bLrQwN pic.twitter.com/O5476HmHRT
— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) March 3, 2021
Anyway, please read this important research. it's absolutely worth understanding. /end https://t.co/ghTBxcjVpi
— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) March 3, 2021
In US on Facebook, "politically extreme sources tend to generate more interactions" & "far-right, misinformation sources far outperform non-misinformation sources" @LauraEdelson2 et al find in interesting work (worth noting I think Fox is coded as misinfo) https://t.co/LLyhjWfjc6
— Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (@rasmus_kleis) March 3, 2021
Far right-wing misinfo attracts more engagement than similar content on the center and left: https://t.co/A8iXUv104x
— Deen Freelon (@dfreelon) March 3, 2021
In reference to new NYU study https://t.co/13f7To5EUW
— David Carroll (@profcarroll) March 3, 2021
US news sources rated as far-right generated the highest average number of interactions per follower with their posts ahead of the election, according to this piece of research by @LauraEdelson2 and others https://t.co/GgiYcxMwhN
— Reuters Institute (@risj_oxford) March 4, 2021
Left-leaning and centrist publications get less engagement if they publish misinformation but news organizations that regularly publish false right-wing material get up to 65 percent more engagement than the ones that don’t. https://t.co/2DN1rlreVR
— Nieman Lab (@NiemanLab) March 3, 2021
Fascinating new study by @LauraEdelson2 finds that news orgs on the far right get a massive engagement engagement boost for publishing misinformation. Which raises the question: how much do Facebook's algorithms, optimized for engagement, boost this stuff? https://t.co/j1DDvAYU5i
— Gilad Edelman (@GiladEdelman) March 3, 2021
Huh. So it's almost like "both sides" is, itself, fake news.... Or maybe, if I want to get more interaction, I should say "QAnon's planted ANTIFA fake news stories get snowflake libs to click on Facebook." https://t.co/p5bvucHpC5
— W. David Ball (@WDavidBall) March 4, 2021
X: I'm being censored!
— Joan Donovan, PhD ? (@BostonJoan) March 4, 2021
Y: Everyone can hear you!
X: No I'm silenced ???
Y: Nah, you're louder than everyone else. Here's some data from @LauraEdelson2 and team proving it.
X: WHY CAN'T YOU HEAR ME? MAYBE I SHOULD MAKE ANOTHER FACEBOOK PAGE?!!?https://t.co/3iNz7MaiuK
NEW: Between Aug 2020 and Jan 2021 far-right misinformation Facebook pages drew more engagement per follower than any other type of partisan news, a new study shows.
— issie lapowsky (@issielapowsky) March 3, 2021
These misinfo pages drew 65% more engagement per follower than even other far-right news. https://t.co/sk1vVNfH97
We don't know how Facebook's algorithms work, but according to new research using @NewsGuardRating data, "being a consistent spreader of far-right misinformation appears to confer a significant advantage."https://t.co/2JDG4DZ0lq
— Anna-Sophie Harling (@asharling) March 3, 2021
The most engaging political news on Facebook? Far-right misinformation. https://t.co/pqwxiH5Gp4
— Bill Bishop (@niubi) March 4, 2021
The researchers found that far-right news is the only partisan category where misinformation was *more* engaging than real news.
— issie lapowsky (@issielapowsky) March 3, 2021
In every other category, from far-left to slightly right, misinformation pages were less engaging than real news. https://t.co/sk1vVNfH97
Facebook is a tool for the far right.
— Josh Fox #BanFrackingNow (@joshfoxfilm) March 4, 2021
https://t.co/E67O9mxXfa
Onderzoeker: "What we find is that among the far right in particular, misinformation is more engaging than non-misinformation (...). We can specifically identify that this is really true on the far right, but not true in the center or on the left.”https://t.co/GeMkqJw88X
— Rudy Bouma ???? (@rudybouma) March 4, 2021
We (@cyber4democracy) released some new research today. TL; DR: misinformation is more engaging than non-misinformation, but only on the far-right. We're expanding our research beyond digital ads transparency, and this is the first step in that direction. https://t.co/DwIIRfqHuL
— Laura Edelson (@LauraEdelson2) March 3, 2021
"Far-right pages that regularly trade in misinformation raked in 65% more engagement per follower than other far-right pages that aren't known for spreading misinformation." https://t.co/lAObPuuzPq
— Daniel Funke (@dpfunke) March 4, 2021