Confirmed: Facebook’s Recent Algorithm Change Is Crushing Conservative Sites, Boosting Liberals

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This is still more social media censorship, and more attempts to silence all conservative voices. We are seeing an unprecedented erosion in our First Amendment rights, increasingly prohibiting the flow of ideas and free expression in the public square (social media). Run by left-wing self-possessed snowflakes, social media giants are indulging their worst autocratic impulses. And because they can, it is getting worse. “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Having grown up in the 1970s, I can tell you it was a vastly different country then. It was free. But we aren’t any no longer, and it is time we took back what is ours — our unalienable freedoms.

Having been one of the early targets of social media censorship on Facebook, YouTube et al, I have advocated for anti-trust action against these bullying behemoths. Early last year, I wrote: “The US government has used anti-trust laws to break up monopolies. They ought to break up Facebook. Section 2 of the Sherman Act highlights particular results deemed anticompetitive by nature and prohibits actions that ‘shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations.’ Couldn’t the same be applied to information? The United States government took down Standard Oil, Alcoa, Northern Securities, the American Tobacco Company and many others without nearly the power that Facebook has.”

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What is happening is being engineered at the government level. A chief officer from a major American communications company went to the terror state of Pakistan to assure the Pakistani government that Facebook would adhere to the sharia. The commitment was given by Vice President of Facebook Joel Kaplan, who called on Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan. “Facebook has reiterated its commitment to keep the platform safe and promote values that are in congruence with its community standards.”

Why the block? Because under Islamic law, you cannot criticize Islam. Facebook adhering to the most extreme and brutal ideology on the face of the earth should trouble all of us, because Mark Zuckerberg has immense power. He controls the flow of information. This must be stopped. Our First Amendment freedom of speech is at stake.

“Confirmed: Facebook’s Recent Algorithm Change Is Crushing Conservative Sites, Boosting Liberals,” by George Upper, Western Journal, March 13, 2018 (thanks to Floyd):

Facebook’s much-publicized demotion of publishers’ content in users’ news feeds has negatively impacted conservative-leaning publishers significantly more than liberal-leaning outlets, an analysis by The Western Journal has revealed.

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.

This algorithm change, intentional or not, has in effect censored conservative viewpoints on the largest social media platform in the world. This change has ramifications that, in the short-term, are causing conservative publishers to downsize or fold up completely, and in the long-term could swing elections in the United States and around the world toward liberal politicians and policies.

Facebook Algorithm Impact On Conservatives

Example: New York Post vs. New York Daily News

Case in point: Two rival publishers in New York City, the New York Post and the New York Daily News, are similar in many ways, except for their editorial slants. The Post is well-known as a right-leaning outlet, whereas the Daily News has an established left-leaning slant. For example, the Daily News recently ran a headline after the Parkland shooting that read, “Brave Florida survivors plan day of action for gun sanity and to call out ‘blood on hands’ of NRA puppets.”

Headlines like that garnered the Daily News a 24.18 percent increase in traffic from Facebook, while the right-leaning Post’s traffic dropped 11.44 percent in the same time period.

NY Post vs NY Daily News Facebook

 

These results are similar to the “surprisingly profound and partisan” findings of analysis conducted by The Outline. However, whereas The Outline analyzed user engagement on Facebook itself, The Western Journal looked at actual traffic driven to news websites by Facebook, which directly impacts revenue for these sites.

Why did Facebook make this change?

Campbell Brown, a former anchor on NBC and CNN who now leads Facebook’s news partnerships team, told attendees at a recent technology and publishing conference that Facebook would be censoring news publishers based on its own internal biases:

“This is not us stepping back from news. This is us changing our relationship with publishers and emphasizing something that Facebook has never done before: It’s having a point of view, and it’s leaning into quality news. … We are, for the first time in the history of Facebook, taking a step to try to to define what ‘quality news’ looks like and give that a boost.” (Emphasis added.)

Based on The Western Journal’s analysis — and an overwhelming amount of insider reports from new media publishers — it is clear that Facebook’s definition of “quality news” is news with a liberal slant.

Where does this data come from?

To conduct this evaluation, The Western Journal selected 50 publishers known to receive a significant amount of online traffic from Facebook. These publishers include traditional print or television outlets such as The Washington Post, CNN and Fox News, as well as new media outlets like Salon, Vox and The Daily Caller. (The full list of publishers appears in the chart below.)

 The Western Journal then assigned each publisher a number between 0 and 100 based on Media Bias / Fact Check News, a third party website that analyzes publishers for political bias and places them on a continuum between “extreme left” and “extreme right.”

Next, The Western Journal checked the monthly Facebook traffic for each of these sources using data from global digital market intelligence company SimilarWeb and compared January traffic to traffic from Feb. 4 through Mar. 3, adjusted for the slightly shorter time period. According to available internal data, Facebook began rolling out this major algorithm change on Feb. 6.

The results: Conservative publishers negatively impacted

The 25 on the liberal side of the scale averaged a 1.86 percent boost in traffic from Facebook, whereas the 25 news organizations on the conservative side averaged a 13.71 percent decrease in traffic.

Based on this analysis, it is clear that liberal news sites are being promoted in Facebook users’ news feeds more often than conservative sites.

Facebook Algorithm Impact On Conservatives

After removing the 15 publishers with the least traffic from Facebook, the trend becomes even more clear.

Of the remaining 35 news sources, the 12 most liberal sites averaged a boost of 0.21 percent — in other words, they don’t appear to have been affected in any meaningful way.

The 11 sites in the middle — which ranged from “left-center” to “least biased” on the MBFC News scale — saw a significant increase in Facebook traffic of 12.81 percent.

The 12 most conservatives sites lost an average of 27.06 percent of their traffic from Facebook.

Of the 12 most liberal sites, six saw double-digit decreases in traffic, while four saw double-digit increases and two — The Washington Post and HuffPo — saw single-digit increases. CNN’s traffic increased 43.78 percent.

Of the 11 sites in the middle of the scale, nine saw traffic increase. Only two — CBS News and The Atlantic — saw a traffic decrease….

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JppD
Jpp
6 years ago

ban facebook 🙂

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago
Reply to  Jpp

Like facebook , twitter, even Google have joined Islamofascist gang http://tinyurl.com/lgp28rs

To censor conservative and Anti-jihadi news to push the islamisation agenda of the Left/Liberal/jihadis funded by saudi/qataris. They are either funded(muslims holding stake in their company) or paid Millions to shill for Islam and run down/smear those who oppose Islam.

And conservatives don’t want to fund the alternative media, nor unite to pursue the issue politically or legally then act surprised their First amendment is not getting up and fighting for them !

Rocketman ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ
Rocketman ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

I do NONE!

Thorsten
Thorsten
6 years ago

ignore facebook

Rocketman ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ
Rocketman ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ
6 years ago
Reply to  Thorsten

After suspending my FascistBook account 6 years ago, I just deleted the whole damn thing. I never had any urge to go back.

Mark Desser
Mark Desser
6 years ago

Dismantle Facebook under anti-trust laws.

felix1999
felix1999
6 years ago
Reply to  Mark Desser

Where is JEFF SESSIONS? Sherman Anti Trust laws!
He is turning out to be one USELESS human being.

santashandler
santashandler
6 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

The swinging door is just about to hit him in the ass.

Bill Kay
Bill Kay
6 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

A dowdy little milk toast dude a joke should be gone .

mezcukor
mezcukor
6 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

I agree

caschmid@centurytel.net
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

It is now 2020 and Sessions has been dethroned by Alabama. Our system is slow and does not play when the people have had enough.

Kalambong Kalambong
Kalambong Kalambong
6 years ago
Reply to  Mark Desser

Facebook?

It;s real name is FALSEbook

sodacrackers2
sodacrackers2
6 years ago

Exactly, it’s a place where you can pretend to be something you are not. Don’t buy into it! Oh happy day when I quit aol and Facebook.

AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
6 years ago

That’s the idea.

Thorsten
Thorsten
6 years ago

OT: (start) ‘… ban radical Christian(?) … at the same time let in jihadis … huuaaeeeeeaah?? ..’

https://quran.com/4/74-76 ‘… I will cast terror’ https://quran.com/8/12-17 https://quran.com/8/39 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La_sZ8q3S0Q

Rick Reynolds
Rick Reynolds
6 years ago

Well said Pam but I don’t think we need to ‘break up’ Facebook, I’m not even sure what that would look like or how it’ll help us to chop the big companies into smaller ones.

I think we need to tell these social media giants that enough is enough and they can no longer be allowed to manipulate data flows to favor liberals while punishing conservatives. Most of all we need to change their rules and enforce freedom of speech and stop banning people who don’t hold hard-left views.

There needs to be an independent govt board that reviews what they do to make sure that these sites adhere to the principle of free thought/speech. I personally hate Facebook and almost never use it, but I used to be on Twitter a lot until they banned me for telling the truth about Islam.

So getting rid of the algorithms and enforcing the 1st Amend would level the playing field and take care of most problems with social media. If there are other things that can be done to improve these sites I’m all for it. I think this will probably require Trump or the courts to force these giants to change their radical left policies.

aebe
aebe
6 years ago
Reply to  Rick Reynolds

No government boards deciding who may or may not have anything to say , you are asking for the gummit to take over FB’s censorious aspirations . And as no sane person wants to walk around with facebook stuck to the soles of their shoes , let the gummit earn its beans and dice FB into bits .
yup*

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

As usual the obvious most effective and simplest solution is blatantly rejected. Stop using face book, when advertisers and clients sell decreased usage, they will demand changes be made. There are alternatives to face book.

TexanForever
TexanForever
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Most people agree but not all will actually do this. Break it up.
.

Midnattsol
Midnattsol
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

I am one of those strange people who do not have a farcebook or twitter account.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  Midnattsol

Neither do I.

robert v g
robert v g
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Join the club.But we still have a blast on these discussion sites,don’t we?

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  robert v g

There is life without face book.

VoiceInDesert
VoiceInDesert
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

There will be no face book in heaven.

VoiceInDesert
VoiceInDesert
6 years ago
Reply to  robert v g

Absolutely!

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago
Reply to  robert v g

You are on to something. Sites like”Fakebook” and Twitter are like soap operas. They only show people at their worst.

caschmid@centurytel.net
3 years ago
Reply to  robert v g

A really good idea.

Exuperancia Pérez
Exuperancia Pérez
6 years ago
Reply to  Midnattsol

and I am another one! I will NEVER open an account with that stupidity misch-masch !
I simply despise and loathe that Zuckerberg mamzer.

VoiceInDesert
VoiceInDesert
6 years ago
Reply to  Midnattsol

Welcome to the club!

Dagonet
Dagonet
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Stop using FB? These are the same brain dead, Leftist S-heads that need to be eduMAcated to the truth.

Look at the legal action Dennis Prager has taken against FB and I think also Youtube.

762x51FMJ
762x51FMJ
6 years ago

In order not to offend Muslims facebook recommends that all feminists IMMEDIATELY report for FGM surgery.
Only then will ALL women be created equal under Islam.

ConnectingDots
ConnectingDots
6 years ago
Reply to  762x51FMJ

…and Zuckerberg’s wife, and all female employees of Facebook

Dagonet
Dagonet
6 years ago
Reply to  ConnectingDots

His wife and daughter.

Eye of Socrates
Eye of Socrates
6 years ago

Just stop using facebook. Do what I do… get your news from the left and the right and evaluate with critical thinking. Just remember this fact of human nature, people want what they can’t have. It’s going to back fire on facebook and people are going to chase down conservative news just because it is being silenced.

TexanForever
TexanForever
6 years ago

Sounds good and hopeful but is wishful thinking. Break it up.
.

TexanForever
TexanForever
6 years ago

Break up Facebook like they did the Pullman Corp, Bell Telephone, and the steel monopolies, none of which were as bad as Facebook.

Jay Harper
Jay Harper
6 years ago

What is needed is a Class Action lawsuit charging them with illegal discrimination.

Bosette
Bosette
6 years ago

People got along just fine without Facebook, and they can get along just fine without Facebook again. Listen up. Mr. Z.

Sing On
Sing On
6 years ago

The solution is simple. Stop using Facebook. As a cyber security best practice people should not use social media. Period.
As for why American technology companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Google etc are so left leaning one needs to understand the industry. With globalization it’s much cheaper to do software development in India due to the lower cost of living. For local jobs it’s cheaper to hire immigrants, so a lot of muslims immigrated into the west that way. Look at Google and Microsoft’s CEO’s…I wouldn’t be surprised if they had a bias to offshore jobs to India. Look at the photos of Microsoft employees with their CEO: all Indians. So you have companies with an employee base where the majority of software developers are Indian. And since India has the second largest Muslim population, you get a large percentage of Muslim software developers who helped code those censorship algorithms. So their personal bias makes it into the software implementation. Thus more alt-left content on FaceBook.
Saw similar things in Metrolinx I&IT (Indian and Islamic Technology). One Arabic solution manager architected a software solution incapable of handling online load but no one could say so because he was of a protected demographic. Any user or internal customer who dared to speak up was shut down by management. Happened to a nice and honest Sikh fellow I knew.
So this will take a long time to change but in the meantime one wonders how Facebook will handle more Islamic content alongside feminist content?

Sing On
Sing On
6 years ago
Reply to  Sing On

And Facebook has an office in Hyderabad…which is a beautiful place.

Midnattsol
Midnattsol
6 years ago

It is best not to use farcebook. Starve the beast.

Laurence Jarvik
Laurence Jarvik
6 years ago

There’s also an SEC issue and a fiduciary trust issue for the state of registration for the corporations (Delaware?). If these companies were registered to do one thing–and changed their mission subsequent to issuing stock without telling anyone publicly, while hurting their bottom line such as Facebook reportedly did with lower “engagement” numbers re Trump etc., then their public offerings may have been fraudulent or misleading, and their management breached fiduciary trust for corrupt political purposes–something some bigfoot lawyers need to look into, as well as anti-trust, IMHO. (I’d do it, but am not a lawyer). The whole thing stinks, and public justifications from the corporations fail red-face tests, imho. Bad for business climate overall, as well as bad for internet companies…and their customers.

aebe
aebe
6 years ago

Sasquatches going to law school ? As they have never been seen , it must have been on an Obama scholarship .

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

By manipulation the data, they are selling false information that if their customer’s base marketing strategy on, will find they are not getting what they paid for. The results will be skewed with disastrous results. By eliminating a significant part of the customer base, the left are headed for a wreck.

aebe
aebe
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Would take a genuine crash by FB to allow a conservative alternative up and running .

MAS
MAS
6 years ago

Do y’all really think the government is going to break up their best source of voluntary information? People pour their very lives out on Facebook and all any agency has to do is tap in. I wouldn’t be surprised if Facebook etc isn’t an NSA ghost company…

Guy Matthew
Guy Matthew
6 years ago

Zuckentraitor hates American Valuescomment image

Dagonet
Dagonet
6 years ago

*uckerberg is just as destructive to the west as pisslam.
F- ’em all.

aebe
aebe
6 years ago

tell them , not us

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
6 years ago

I’m not a Facetard so this doesn’t bother me. You just have to start your own website. That is what I recommend. It should be an embarrassment to be a Facetard nowadays.

Run by a FATHERLESS MORON.

Dave
Dave
6 years ago

WHEN Joel Kaplan and FB support islum, we don’t need them here in the free USA.

thushjz
thushjz
6 years ago

I’ve had a YouTube channel for nearly nine years with 360 videos on there, mostly my music stuff, but also the typical cats, dogs etc..YouTube demonetized my channel a week ago, Facebook has put me in their jail twice, and people tell me a lot of my posts don’t show up I their pages. Leftist democrats are the book burning fascists today, not us on the right, and they prove it daily…

edD
ed
6 years ago

When is Zuckerberg going to grow his scraggly, pubic-haired beard and change his name to moHamed ??

Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte
6 years ago

The left think their alliance with Islam will give them power in perpetuity but they are wrong. As the muslim population grows the time will come when leftists submit to Islam or face the sword. If there is nationalist revolution leftists will hang, either legally or by lynching. They will regret their betrayal of the white working class which they considered vulgar and uneducated. Hee ! hee ! hee !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC5HmxVxOAw

VictorMC
VictorMC
6 years ago

Zuckerberg is a faux Jew who due to all that money lost his marbles long ago now. I cancelled my account years back. F’book is a hacker/nutter ridden site except if you are under 12 years old. You should be able to show pics. of you in your pram. There should be an auto cancel algorithm for the 13 year olds.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

If you can’t find me on “Fakebook”, there’s a reason. I have not, and never will, use their service.

mezcukor
mezcukor
6 years ago

what can we do to change that?

Richard1ne
Richard1ne
6 years ago

To Facebook

I have commented to several media on various issues for a long time. For the past couple weeks, many of my comments were labeled as scams. I’m aware of your community standards and my comments were certainly not inappropriate.

As many other commentators have noticed, I can only surmise that Facebook has become more politically-correct, ridiculously politically-correct as a matter of fact.

I know Prime Minister Trudeau has cautioned Facebook about material affecting him. Don’t fall for his irrational whining.

Please, don’t get intimidated by the left and let me exercise my right to free speech. Hopefully, I will no longer see interference with my comments otherwise I would expect a rational explanation.

Thanks.

6 Mar 18

A week or so ago, I sent you the problem described above.

Your response indicated somewhat that it was due to some technical difficulties. Sorry, I don’t buy that.

What’s happening is that you’re purposely interfering with users’ rights to free speech… you’re extremely politically-correct.

Again, there’s nothing wrong with my comments. Please, let me speak!

Christian Gains
Christian Gains
6 years ago

SUKERBERG is a C.I.A. contractor…and this is simply ONE of the “incidents” that are going to cause chaos enough to get the G.P. to holler for PROTECTION!!! Mahou Shoujo is correct to a point, but, this is DEEP STATE,[D.S.], “IMMEDIATE ACTION” drills to destabilize the G.P. & cause them to accept more D.S. controls…

caschmid@centurytel.net
3 years ago

Do not worry too much, Ms. Pamela and thank you for keeping this site. It is now 2020; sites and comment sections like yours are helping picking up the slack. All sorts of interactions are happening here, including but not limited to discussion, posting of other news and links to other sites. As a matter of fact, I am becoming an advocate for using comment sections around the matrix for these purposes. Every blog contributor on my little website has been intermittently censored on facebook and/or youtube. My husbands guest columns for the local paper have even been scrubbed. We are learning to get around the roadblocks. I encourage everyone to keep the same name in the matrix so you, your writing, art, poetry, knowledge can be found. Comment on articles of interest. Use email and subscribe to sites of interest. Set up your own website and link to others of interest. Diversify your presence. Nature finds a way, and then another one, and another.

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