{"id":6197,"date":"2016-09-26T14:59:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T14:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=6197"},"modified":"2016-09-26T19:15:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T19:15:09","slug":"linked-news-publishers-facebook-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/09\/26\/linked-news-publishers-facebook-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: \u201cNews Publishers\u2019 Facebook\u00a0Problem\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"#\">via Monday Note<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last year, I had a discussion with the publisher of a renowned investigative US media site. He told me that he and his team had long wondered about the huge discrepancy between the nation-wide resonance of their work, and its presence in Facebook newsfeed\u2026 After meeting people with good knowledge of Facebook&#8217;s inner plumbing, they had come to the conclusion that the algorithm was simply biased to favor positive content over the darker pieces that make the bulk of investigative journalism. \u201cWe became convinced that Facebook favors a Alice in Wonderland vision\u201d, he concluded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Consider the following conclusion in the Reuters Institute Digital News Report (one of the best sources to understand the shifts in news consumption): When asked the question: Thinking about when you have used social media\/aggregators for news, typically how often do you notice the news brand that has supplied the content? Less than half of social media users acknowledged being able to identify the actual news source.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Facebook censors your journalism in favor for positive and viral content that is insanely shareable and monetizeable and most people have no idea where a piece was published which is by design. Facebook wants people IRL (in real life) to tell their friends \u201cI saw that on Facebook\u201d not, \u201cI saw that on Buzzfeed\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Monday Note: Last year, I had a discussion with the publisher of a renowned investigative US media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1BX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7338,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2018\/03\/29\/linked-former-facebook-exec-says-social-media-is-ripping-apart-society\/","url_meta":{"origin":6197,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 29, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society - The Verge: He went on to describe an incident in India where hoax messages about kidnappings shared on WhatsApp led to the lynching of seven innocent people. \u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019re dealing with,\u201d said Palihapitiya. \u201cAnd imagine taking that to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6647,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/02\/10\/linked-facebooks-walled-wonderland-is-inherently-incompatible-with-news-media\/","url_meta":{"origin":6197,"position":1},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Facebook\u2019s Walled Wonderland Is Inherently Incompatible With News Media&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"February 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Monday Note: Facebook is made up of dozens of millions of groups carefully designed to share the same views and opinions. Each group is protected against ideological infiltration from other cohorts. Maintaining the integrity of these walls is the primary mission of Facebook\u2019s algorithm. We must face the fact\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3962,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2013\/08\/15\/linked-facebooks-news-feed-algorithm\/","url_meta":{"origin":6197,"position":2},"title":"\u2605 Linked: &#8220;Facebook&#8217;s News Feed Algorithm&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"August 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"via Facebook for Business' Blog: Everything posted to that blog most social media \"experts\" have already realized for themselves but it is really nice to see it written out like this. If you care about what Facebook shows you, click the link. Still, Twitter is way better. I hate that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4262,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/10\/03\/linked-snapchat-murders-facebook\/","url_meta":{"origin":6197,"position":3},"title":"Linked: Snapchat Murders Facebook","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"October 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"via YouTube: it was a well done video and honestly, until now I didn\u2019t really know what SnapChat was. Now I do. It\u2019s not surprising to hear this coming from me. Despite the fact that i haven\u2019t hired a web designer to update my website, I\u2019m not really into social\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6195,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/09\/23\/linked-facebook-admits-to-blocking-wikileaks-links-in-dnc-email-hack\/","url_meta":{"origin":6197,"position":4},"title":"Linked: \u201cFacebook admits to blocking Wikileaks links in DNC email\u00a0hack\u201d","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"September 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via NY Post: Facebook admitted Sunday that it had blocked links to the Wikileaks trove of emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee. In a Twitter post late Saturday, WikiLeaks accused the social media giant of \u201ccensorship\u201d and gave its followers an online workaround, saying \u201ctry using https:\/\/archive.is.\u201d Living in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2838,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/08\/02\/my-fake-facebook-birthdays\/","url_meta":{"origin":6197,"position":5},"title":"\u2605 &#8220;My Fake Facebook Birthdays&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"August 2, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Slate: At the end of June, I edited\u00a0my profile\u00a0to mark my first fake birthday on July 11. Early birthday greetings began popping up on my wall on July 8, from a couple of \"friends\" who were going away and didn't want to miss the big day. 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