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New by me, @MikeIsaac and @sheeraf: a post-election look inside Facebook, where internal battles are raging about how to balance the sometimes-incompatible goals of growth and goodness.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/technology/facebook-

A few stray thoughts from my story in today's paper about The Epoch Times.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/technology/epoch-times-influence-falun-gong.html On one level, this is a story about a new religious movement building its own

Didn't have time to list it, but I pulled some data for this segment:August FB interactionsCNN: 21 millionNYT: 8MBen Shapiro: 55MAugust FB video viewsCNN: 73MNYT: 12MThe Hodgetwins: 84MAugust FB shares:CNN:

The most-viewed video on Facebook about Jacob Blake is a 4-minute monologue by Turning Point USA contributor Graham Allen, who calls it a "justified shooting" and says, "if you're trying

We talked about this in the Rabbit Hole QAnon episode, but it's still wild to me that part of what fueled the rise of QAnon was Facebook trying to fix

Sometimes, these lists speak for themselves. But I want to dig a little deeper into today's list, because I think it illustrates something that isn't immediately obvious.https://twitter.com/FacebooksTop10/status/1290730301434388480

The #1, #4, and #10 posts on this list — representing more than 700,000 combined interactions — all link to versions of the same news story: a report about a

Top 10 stories on Facebook over the past 24 hours (link posts only, ranked by # of engagements) come from:1. Franklin Graham2. CNN3. Ben Shapiro4. Fox News5. Fox News6. Fox

Wrote about a morbid thought I've been having lately, watching the spread of anti-vaxx propaganda like Plandemic. What if we develop a successful Covid-19 vaccine and a huge chunk of

I am all for scrutinizing politicians' finances but the "Trump is recommending hydroxychloroquine because he has a stake in Sanofi" take is a stretch. It's more likely he sees a