Facebook's new report reinforces its narrative that most content on the News Feed is not news, but doesn't provide enough data to make meaningful conclusions
According to Facebook, this GIF from Tumblr is one of the most viewed links on all of Facebook in the past quarter, with 49.1M content views. https://transparency.fb.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
FB really delivering on its crucial mission of making the world more open and connected (these are some of the top posts in the US this quarter, as reported by FB itself) https://transparency.fb.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
The no. 3 most-viewed Facebook post for the quarter, marked as “no longer available,” appears to be this viral meme post that asked people to basically share what they'd put in their password-recovery “secret answer” box https://transparency.fb.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
If the publication is only 10% disinformation and then 80% cute animal videos, the whole thing goes on the blocklist. This manipulation tactic is tried and tried again by the Epoch Times: https://twitter.com/...
This is an insight that's so obvious it's easy to lose sight of (especially for the hapless souls trying to constrain a tight research hypothesis). But it's key to understanding content moderation, its challenges, & its limits. Also, your adversaries have not lost sight of this. …
Hard to interpret this any other way than as this sort of transparency primarily being the result of political pressure. If so, the main lesson politicians and others elsewhere would take from that? Increase the pressure. https://twitter.com/...
Along with reading the fab @EthanZ write up on this circus act of content at Facebook, add the very smart @brianboland: Facebook's content report fails to deliver on the transparency it promises | by Brian Boland | Aug, 2021 | Medium https://medium.com/...
The more I reflect on it, the more I'm convinced Facebook saw the “most engaged-with” content, decided they'd be skewered if they published it, and so instead showed the more innocuous list of URLs w/ the most “scrolled-past views.” FB is such a dumpster fire🙄 https://twitter.com…