Since the 2016 election, I’ve been obsessively tracking how partisan political content is performing on Facebook, the world’s largest and arguably most influential media platform. Every morning, one of the first browser tabs I open is CrowdTangle — a handy Facebook-owned data tool that offers a bird’s-eye view of what’s popular on the platform. I check which politicians and pundits are going viral. I geek out on trending topics. I browse the previous day’s stories to see which got the most reactions, shares and comments.
Most days, the leader board looks roughly the same: conservative post after conservative post, with the occasional liberal interloper. (If you want to see these lists for yourselves, you can check out @FacebooksTop10, a Twitter account I created that shows the top 10 most-interacted-with link posts by U.S. Facebook pages every day.)
But what sticks out, when you dig in to the data, is just how dominant the Facebook right truly is. Pro-Trump political influencers have spent years building a well-oiled media machine that swarms around every major news story, creating a torrent of viral commentary that reliably drowns out both the mainstream media and the liberal opposition.
Brad Parscale — the digital director of Trump’s 2016 campaign — told “60 Minutes” that of everything Trump did that year, the thing that actually moved the needle was Facebook.
“Facebook was the method,” Parscale said. “It was the highway which his car drove on.”
That highway is still open. And right now, the fastest cars on it have MAGA bumper stickers.
I went to the twitter account. It’s true. Conservative Politics dominates on FB/
That’s why they had to hire neutral (LOL) monitors to snatch ‘fake’ stories out of the users’ pages.
Zuckerberg – don’t even get me started! Conservatives need to dominate his ass then shove it up there sideways. But don’t get me started!
And quite a few who support DJT have dumped FB after being “jailed” for conservative comments. They aren’t counted but their votes in November will be.
I bet Zuckerberg only suppresses enough conservative content so that his income stream is not seriously effected.
Yea, but no. I Love Trump, but for mental sanity I vacated facebook years ago. Praying for a full gop win. Trump winning president alone, is not enough. One man cannot carry the burden of fixing the swamp. Local,state,and national sweep of conservative values needs to sweep across this country.
Use the 1st year for full action on everything, treat it lile its the last opportunity, because it is.
We also have to remember the “Massive Silent Majority” that goes through these “Social Media” sites just to read and analyze what is being posted there without adding any input, that are total President Trump supporters, that live in Progressive Liberal States, who will micro shred or burn their “Progressive Mail-in Ballots”, so they can’t be harvested & vote in person for President Trump & down ticket Republicans as well.
FB?
Never.
No facebook for me. We have the right to privacy, why give it away?
Everyone here knows it, but it’s going to come down to the GOP’s ability to combat the massive voter fraud. The dems know that is their only chance. Or perhaps traditional voting at polling stations will produce such an overwhelming landslide victory, that mail-in ballot fraud can’t overcome it. Not likely. It’s all about defeating the planned voter fraud.
Likewise dumped FB and Twitter years ago.
The choice is quite simple. Do you want your businesses and schools in permanent lockdown or to have them open? Do you want your cities burned and looted with violent thugs controlling the streets?
Is this difficult to understand?
It’s ALL about stopping mail in voting fraud. If the country goes all in for mail in the democrats will rule for decades just like their kindred spirits the Soviets.
The Left is making Trump more and more re-electable on a daily basis.
“Local,state,and national sweep of conservative values needs to sweep across this country.“
True, Pearl Clutcher. They told us how the Obama Presidency was poison for national, state and local Democrats, costing them more than 1,000 elected offices across the country. Yet here we are, under bullshit lockdowns and economic destruction, commanded by a bunch of Democrat state and local officials and their quisling GOP gimps.
If Trump wins, or even if he loses, we need to spend the next four years of election cycles taking out the tyrant trash in our states, counties and cities. Replace the people who did this to us with people who run on blowing the New Normal straight back to hell. Get rid of the governors, mayors, county commissioners, boards of education members and appointed hirelings who trampled our freedoms into the dust.
Because taking 1,000 Democrats off the government teat was not nearly enough. Now we know what they’ll do if given the power and the opportunity. Four more years and 1,000 more gone should be our goal.
No FB or twatter for me. Too much hate, envy and evil to wade through. I’m mainly a lurker online myself, but I’m Trump 2020 all the way. So is every person I know. Every. Single. One.
@Carmenzoid.
Envy is an official plank in the democrats’ party platform. As are the rest of the seven deadly sins.
I will look at FB or Twitter stuff now and then. But create an account. Ain’t never going to happen.
Also No Alexa or Siri BS ever.
As far as I can determine. Someone told Mark he should spell his last starting with the 6th letter of the alphabet, but he pretends it was the 26th letter.
Sweet justice! As far as I’m concerned.
I want the TRUTH!!!
fazebook keeps BANNING the Truth!! 🙄
The ugly reality is that it isn’t going to matter how many PEOPLE vote for Trump.
The commie left with their “mail in voting” scam that puts color codes on ballot envelopes denoting who the vote is for will enable literally MILLIONS of votes for Trump to magically disappear while MILLIONS MORE votes for Biden will be created out of thin air.