No Evidence of Anti-Conservative Bias by Social Media, New Study Asserts

Variety ^ | February 1, 2021 | Todd Spangler

[semimojo]

The top-performing link posts by U.S. Facebook pages in the last 24 hours are from:

1. Fox News
2. Fox News
3. ForAmerica
4. Ben Shapiro
5. The New York Times
6. RFA Burmese
7. Breitbart
8. VOA Burmese News
9. Franklin Graham
10. Ben Shapiro

— Facebook's Top 10 (@FacebooksTop10) February 1, 2021

[a fool in paradise]

And Dennis Prager was wrong to quote the 10 commandments because it discusses murder.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Gaslighting-R-Us

[KC_Conspirator]

lolz

[CaptainMorgantown]

The same NYU author, Paul Barrett, authored another study last summer calling for more aggressive censorship of social media:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-technology-202/2020/06/08/the-technology-202-nyu-report-calls-social-media-titans-to-stop-outsourcing-content-moderation/5edd3806602ff12947e865d2/%3foutputType=amp

[DEEP_e]

that is because they have all been scrubbed. Can’t have conservative bias without conservatives

[DJ MacWoW]

I decided to check out the rest of their "experts".

CrowdTangle, Facebook buys CrowdTangle, the tool publishers use to win the internet Nov 11, 2016

NewsWhip, Paul Quigley and Andrew Mullaney.
Looking at Quigleys Twitter, he's an Irish leftist control freak. Paul Quigley Twitter
Andrew Mullaney left NewsWhip in 2018 and isn't biying the Covid "We're all gonna die!" Andrew Mullaney

[monkeyshine]

NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights

Surely that is a misnomer. It is the Stern Center for the Human Rights Business.

Just sayin - either you support human rights or you don't. And if free speech is a human right, you don't need to study this. They censor speech, ergo, they deny human rights. But it's a business, so they get a research grant to pay themselves to study it.

[dowcaet]

If that great conservative bastion of education NYU says there’s no bias it must be true.

[bray]

And Bill Barr determined Epstein committed suicide. If you disagree you will be banned.

[SaveFerris]

Wow and you type so well!

[lowbridge]

Oh, PUH-LEASE!

[Revel]

NYU should be shutdown permanently for showing that they are nothing but stupidity.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The Ministry of Education says that the Ministry of Propaganda is not lying......../s

[alexander_busek]

In fact, the report, produced by the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, cited evidence that social media platforms have actually amplified right-leaning voices algorithmically to reach “unprecedented audiences,” often giving conservatives greater reach than liberal or nonpartisan content creators.

I wanted to post that snippet myself - then saw that you already had, AndyTheBear.

My response to the report:

Only if you call misquoting, quoting out of context, lampooning, mocking, and ridiculing conservatives "giving them greater reach."

Regards,

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

NYU LOL LOL! By the way, anyone notice the lack of protests against Biden even though there’s a hell of a lot more to protest against Biden than there was in Trump in 2017?

[Salamander]

Having a thumb helps but using the shift key is a real bitch.

[x]

Seems this might be a case of equal opportunity vs equal results. Conservatives tend to win on the internet when given an equal opportunity, because we have better arguments, better evidence, and we win fair debates.

Something like that. They are saying that because Trump used social media more and had more followers that "social media" wasn't biased against conservatives, but rather magnified their influence. But the criticism of "social media" doesn't relate to the potential of the medium but the actions and attitudes of the people who run and control it.

The NYU study criticized Facebook and Twitter's censorship of the Hunter Biden story as "decisions wrapped in mystifying processes."

Right, that's one way to find no bias: to simply call it the result of "mystifying processes."

[Disambiguator]

On the internet, nobody knows you’re a salamander.

[Salamander]

*until you up and confess it

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