Vox: Facebook's top news stories are a window into an alternate RW dimension

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.vox.com/2020/3/3/21163363/facebook-top-news-stories-hillary-clinton-emails

It’s Super Tuesday and the coronavirus is spreading, but Facebook is talking about Hillary Clinton’s emails.

By Aaron Rupar@atrupar Mar 3, 2020, 5:00pm EST

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But if you consume your news on Facebook, the biggest news of the day has to do with Hillary Clinton’s emails. Yes, really.

According to data compiled by CrowdTangle, the most total interactions on Facebook came on a Fox News article about a federal judge granting a request from a right-wing group named Judicial Watch to make Clinton sit for a sworn deposition about her use of a private email server when she was secretary of state.



In fact, as this is written early Tuesday afternoon, stories from right-wing sources about Clinton’s emails represent three of the top 10 and five of the 20 top-performing news stories on Facebook over the past 24 hours. The No. 4 story of the day is one about Clinton’s emails from Breitbart, and the eighth-ranked story is one on the same topic from Dan Bongino’s website. Coverage of her emails from National Review and Ben Shapiro also appear in the top 20.

What you won’t find in Facebook’s top 20 news stories, however, is Super Tuesday coverage, anything published by a left-of-center outlet, or anything that’s critical of President Donald Trump or his administration.

Here’s a look at the full top 20 Facebook stories:

1 — Fox News story about Clinton’s emails

2 — CNN story about Australian wildfires

3 — CNN story about coronavirus

4 — Breitbart story about Clinton’s emails

5 — Daily Mail story about new Krispy Kreme doughnut

6 — Fox News story about Monday’s stock market rebound

7 — Ben Shapiro story on Monday’s stock market rebound

8 — Dan Bongino story on Clinton’s emails

9 — Fox News story comparing Bernie Sanders with Hugo Chávez

10 — CNN story on Apple iPhone settlement

11 — Fox News story about Chris Matthews’s retirement

12 — Robert Reich’s post on CNN story about John Lewis’s surprise appearance in Selma

13 — National Review story about Clinton’s emails

14 — BBC News story on Putin trying to ban same-sex marriage in Russia

15 — Bernie Sanders post with link to polling places info

16 — NBC News story story about UPS worker planning mass shooting

17 — TMZ story about Kobe Bryant’s death

18 — Ben Shapiro story on Clinton’s emails

19 — Dan Bongino story about Devin Nunes wanting to subpoena law enforcement and intelligence community officials

20 — NBC story about coronavirus

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[raging moderate]

1. But it's fine when Trump's kids use private email servers for government business.

And it's fine when Trump's kids and Trump himself violate the Emoluments Clause of the US Constitution.

[underpants]

2. TWO Ben Shapiro articles in the top 20????

and

[TheBlackAdder]

4. Someone's gaming the system.

[GoneOffShore]

3. Not on my feed. I'm still getting John Pavlovitz and Robert Reich.

Democrats Abroad, DU, SPLC, etc, etc.

All depends how you configure FB.

[cbdo2007]

5. To be fair, there was nothing "Super Tuesday" to report on on Tuesday afternoon...

even CNN didn't have any coverage yesterday on their page until early evening.

That being said, the fact that Hilary's emails are still a story on any newspaper in the galaxy is ridiculous.