1/ I am enraged. Excellent reporting from WSJ's @dseetharaman and @EmilyGlazer finds that Facebook engineers—with sign-off from Zuckerberg himself—retooled their algorithm to throttle traffic to high-value progressive news orgs, @MotherJones IN PARTICULAR https://t.co/BeIYghE1xt pic.twitter.com/emQcZ832Iw— Person Woman Man Camera TV (@ClaraJeffery) October 16, 2020
This is genuinely a huge factor in why Labour got stomped so hard in 2019, and bernie too - back in 2016/2017 the algorithm was basically neutral- it favoured 'natural shares' not promoted content. They saw this massively helped the left (like insanely so - most people had never been exposed to actual left wing ideas without liberal or right wing gatekeeping before), and turns out left wing ideas are super popular when presented on their own terms by people you know... They aren't making that mistake again,they'd been getting high on their own supply.
let's use all of the domains purchased in the run-up to our launch for redirect/URL-shortening/obfuscation purposes to keep surpressed left-wing sites postable on social media
Well, Mother Jones, not really left-wing.
Sure but if they're blacklisting these shit lib news orgs then they are certainly silencing leftist orgs much harder
This is genuinely a huge factor in why Labour got stomped so hard in 2019, and bernie too - back in 2016/2017 the algorithm was basically neutral- it favoured 'natural shares' not promoted content. They saw this massively helped the left (like insanely so - most people had never been exposed to actual left wing ideas without liberal or right wing gatekeeping before), and turns out left wing ideas are super popular when presented on their own terms by people you know... They aren't making that mistake again,they'd been getting high on their own supply.
Mother Jones is the "progressive outlet" that the WSJ would want to tell people about. They don't want to send folks to unicorn riot
They already banned the anarchist publications Crimethinc and It's Going Down
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let's use all of the domains purchased in the run-up to our launch for redirect/URL-shortening/obfuscation purposes to keep surpressed left-wing sites postable on social media
Let the hundred domains redirect, to paraphrase Mao.