Following Algorithm Change, Facebook Shows That No Actual People Use
Facebook Anymore
BY IWB ·
by Chris Black
According to a recent report, engagement on President Trump’s Facebook
posts has declined by a whopping 45% following the social network’s
algorithm change announced by Zuckerberg himself via a FB post. Facebook
and other social media companies, including Google owned YouTube and
Twitter started a massive crackdown on their conservative users in the
aftermath of President Trump winning the 2016 election, which was followed
by almost a year of pressure from the left wing corporate mainstream media
and the companies’ “progressive” employees, who all accused the tech
behemoths of “allowing” the Donald to win the election. Back in January
2018, Facebook announced a significant change to its newsfeed algos, with
Zuckerberg claiming the respective change was made in order to emphasize
posts from users’ family, friends and groups, and less to brands,
businesses and media. The new Facebook policy is said to promote what
Facebook strives to become in the near future, i.e. a promoter of “broadly
trusted” news sources, whatever that means.
A month passed since the newsfeed algorithm change, and what do you know:
engagement on President Trump’s Facebook dropped by ~45%, according to an
analysis made by NewsWhip, a social media analytics company. What’s very
telling is that the decline in engagement has nothing to do with posting
frequency, as both prior and after the algo-change, Trump posted on
Facebook at basically the same rate. Moreover, compared to Bernie Sanders
and Elizabeth Warren, i.e. high profile leftist political pundits, who do
not appear to have suffered at all in terms of engagement lately, Trump
was hit particularly hard.
Now, if you ask me, people rely too much on Facebook nowadays; the company
needs to go the way of MySpace. And for those of you who think it’s bad
now, it’s going to continue to get worse until a total black-out 30 days
before the November election. Those who think Facebook Twitter and YouTube
are going to stop their political crusade against conservatives are
ignoring reality.
Again, not in favor of telling companies how to run, since we are free
market and should be able to come up with alternatives, but if there are
damages to a user, maybe it could force the algorithms to be made public.
At least it would expose the bias. I saw this comparison lately: if
Christian bakers can be forced to bake a cake for a wedding they don’t
want to participate in (freedom of association goes down the drain), how
come Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other social media sites not be
forced to allow different viewpoints – particularly conservative – be
discussed on their sites?! Aren’t the discriminatory bans they have
implemented against conservatives in direct violation of the 1st
Amendment?!
So anyone ready to make the change yet? Ready to tell these three to
bugger off? It’s time to make a global-wide change to whatever other
alternatives are agreed upon.
Twitter — GAB, Mastodon, Raftr, Plurk (supposed to be the most
‘twitter-like’)
YouTube — Dailymotion, Vimeo, Veoh, Metacafe, Vevo, 9GagTV, Flickr
Facebook — Diaspora, Ello, EyeEm, Path, Mind
(and don’t ask me, I’m clueless but willing to go with the majority
decision). That is the only way. Since the beginning of time, the only
real way to bring change is to vote with your feet/dollars.
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