[ April 18, 2024 ]
If a website gets a large portion of its traffic from Facebook, but gets a small amount from outside of Facebook, then the click-gap signal will now cause Facebook to penalize that website, so as “to limit the spread of ‘problematic’ content.” So the New York Times, NBC News, Buzzfeed, etc. will reap the rewards, but small individual websites like mine and those of my colleagues will be penalized even further than we are now. This is an obvious attempt to influence the 2020 elections and ensure that 2016, when people found alternatives to enemedia propaganda online, doesn’t happen again.
Get more details on this here.
“Facebook’s New ‘Click-Gap’ Is Anti-Free Speech,” by Shaun Hair, Western Journal, April 20, 2019:
Facebook recently announced that it will introduce the “click-gap signal” into its newsfeed algorithm. According to Facebook, the click-gap signal will help protect its users from low-quality content.
Story continues below advertisementBut the new change may actually create a bigger problem for Americans who value the open marketplace of ideas the social media platform once provided.
While the change may cut down on what Facebook deems low-quality content, the more significant outcome will likely be to give the establishment media another step up in Facebook’s newsfeed.
If you are wondering what a click-gap is, then join the crowd. Facebook invented the term, so we are all trying to catch up. Put simply, Facebook is trying to demote domains in its news feed that are getting disproportionately more clicks from inside Facebook than outside of it.
For example, if a website gets a large portion of its pageview traffic from Facebook, but get a small amount from outside of Facebook, then the click-gap signal will now cause Facebook to penalize that website.
Facebook’s news feed algorithm sorts, promotes and demotes posts from users based on certain signals. There are numerous signals — some that we know about and some that we don’t. The click-gap is simply an additional signal that will now factor into the automated sorting that occurs before Facebook users see any posts in their feed.
Facebook explained it this way:
This new signal, Click-Gap, relies on the web graph, a conceptual “map” of the internet in which domains with a lot of inbound and outbound links are at the center of the graph and domains with fewer inbound and outbound links are at the edges. Click-Gap looks for domains with a disproportionate number of outbound Facebook clicks compared to their place in the web graph. This can be a sign that the domain is succeeding on News Feed in a way that doesn’t reflect the authority they’ve built outside it and is producing low-quality content.
Facebook’s stated purpose for forcing the click-gap signal on its users is that it will cut down on low-quality content. And it certainly may do that.
But the click-gap signal will cause far more serious problems than it solves.
The click-gap signal is anti-free speech. One of the advantages of a platform like Facebook is that it provides a fertile ground for diverse voices to be heard. It is easier to post a link to Facebook than to be published in the Op-Ed section of The New York Times. Despite what it looks like, not just anyone can get an interview with CNN. Facebook gives — or rather gave — younger, smaller, less established voices a place where they could be heard.
Not so anymore. Or at least not with any hope of success. Facebook is telling websites that unless they already have a big audience outside of Facebook, they shouldn’t come to Facebook looking for help….
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20 Comments
4 years ago
Where oh where is the GOP on this?
Notice how the GOP is strangely silent about everything – the border, freedom of speech, defending Trump etc…
Pssst…. wth few exceptions, the GOP has the same agenda as the DEMS.
Come on a Cruz, step up! Surely brilliant Ted must have some ideas on how this violates Freedom of Speech.
He always has ideas for Trump then has NO FOLLOW UP.
He was just re-elected with help from Trump!
4 years ago
Now one can understand why this writer, in posting here, has avoided Facebook and has no account there. Get lost, Zuckerberg.
4 years ago
Twitter has “shadow ban” to facilitate censorship, behind the technological curtain.
Facebook will legitimize their censorship as “click gap”.
4 years ago
Is Facebook evil ?
4 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
After facebook, twitter , even Google, youtube joins lslamofascist gang to support illegals and jihadis
suppress conservative free speech
who is really behind it ? more http://tinyurl.com/lgp28rs
4 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
yep..Facebook is evil…divides us…and hates Christians & conservative speech!
4 years ago
When are we all going to do a HUGE lawsuit against these Leftist Monoplized Evil Companies!?
The Lefty DemonRATS lie & say that they are against foreign meddling in our elections.
But, they seem perfectly fine with Illegal Aliens from Mexico & Central America & etc. who are illegally voting in the US! The Dems actually encourage It! What the H£ll!?
Time to sue & expose & take down these corrupt lying Satan worshippers!
4 years ago
Feels like this could be easily exploited.
4 years ago
Click gap is a suicidal behavior from Facebook. Media get punished for using Facebook as a conduit?
Facebook is like a suicide bomber. Like their best buddies in other words.
4 years ago
does anyone know where the image of Shiny Pony’s best buddy Omar Khadr is carrying a severed head down the street in Afghanistan?
I am sure it would look good on Trudeau’s Facefuck page
4 years ago
Reply to
Halal Bacon
I hear the boy child character, Trudeau is going to be on the Simpsons. Khadr and Trudeau are one of the same, anti-Democratic, anti-Canada, anti-Semites but pro-Jihad. If he is re-elected, stand in line nor for ‘grass’ but your Qur’an and prayer mat; signed and authorized by Justin and his treasonous Liberal Party.
4 years ago
Zuckerberg, his disciples, along with other so-called social-media is the Neo-Fascists of today. Not merest heavily weighted conservative censorship but those who are pro-Israel/Jew, pro-Christian or pro-America/Trump. Nor does this censorship pertain solely to Americans, it is in effect throughout Europe, hell, the entire world. He and others are anti-Constitutional Rights, anti-Charter of Rights, hence a totalitarian enterprise. If one, however, dares, to disparage Islam, or labeling the faux-Progressives as Fascists, banishing one from the Kingdom of Suckerberg or others is their solution.
I, for one, cannot understand, comprehend the masses’ fixation, if not addiction to Facebook and others. They are not unlike A Brave New World’s drug, Soma, whose intent was to dull, or numb the masses.
4 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
I have been banned 4 times for 30 days each from FB. This last time there was a warning that if I violated their community standards one more time I would be permanently banned. I do not like the fact that FB posts all evil from the ISLAM-0-NAZIS and then blocks the TRUTH TELLERS . So if I am weaned from FB then I will have more time to use these lost hours in much more creative ways! MAGA!!
4 years ago
Reply to
notislam
Facebook, notislam, is a propaganda platform; one based on a totalitarian ideology. Hence, it abides with a Theocratic ideology of Islam, as they are based on autocratic/theocratic dogmas. Censorship, of political religious diversity, betrays Facebook’s and others of its kind, do not abide by one’s Constitutional Rights or one’s Charter of Rights of other so-called Western Democracies. We are in an age of blatant and emboldened treason, an age of aspirant Bolsheviks endeavoring to eradicate your rights and those of copious others. Nor are these seditionists simply Marxist but employing the doctrine blueprints, as well the malevolent tactics of Nazism, Maoism, and Leninist-Stalinist rule by fear, deceptiveness and a Fifth Column, the MSM.
4 years ago
More of the left’s “social engineering”. So much influence on our society, and so much power.
4 years ago
Most people don’t know the MSM is kontrolled by Satan. Fakebook not excluded.
This was predicted more than 2000 years ago in a once popular book (and perhaps still is) called the Bible. You can read it yourself.
The prediction is remarkable. The little phony Jew does not know he is being influenced by SATAN!
4 years ago
facebook and twitter have to be deconstructed to fit with a free society because they are a public network just as con edison and AT&T was handled. the time has come to act. now.
4 years ago
So the quality of the content is determined by where the clicks come from, not the actual content? That makes no sense. So, if Ernest Hemmingway, or pick another author, posts on fakebook the quality of the content is deemed “low quality” if he receives more clicks from inside than outside fakebook? I still don’t get it but I guarantee it is meant to stifle conservative speech. Besides, since when does fakebook care about the quality of the posts? It is none of their business.
4 years ago
Google are also banning information from conservative sources. When I want to listen to for example
Tucker Carlson or Hannity, I receive a message: “not available”
which is just bull—it!
4 years ago
not help :))
