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Citing a Wall Street Journal report that Facebook has actively changed its set of rules to artificially restrict the scope of liberal political content, Mother Jones editor-in-chief Clara Jeffrey put the company aside on Friday, saying a set of rule adjustments had decimated site traffic and reduced revenue and incorrect “right-wing” information in the process.
In an in-depth review of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s political movements in recent years, WSJ reported Friday that “by the end of 2017, when Facebook replaced its set of news rules to minimize the presence of new policies, lawmakers were involved about the disproportionate have an effect on right-wing adjustments, adding the Daily Wire. ” , said other people close to the matter. Engineers have redesigned planned adjustments to make left-wing sites like Mother Jones more affected than expected, other people said. Sir. Zuckerberg approved the plans.
Jeffrey tweeted that he was “furious” by WSJ’s discovery:
2 / Last year, @MonikaBauerlein and I wrote about how Facebook’s settings to its set of rules damaged valid news organizations while pumping right-wing misinformation machines. We use the effect on our traffic as an example: https: // t . co / FbLtTrukYp
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– Person Woman Man Camera TV (@ClaraJeffery) October 16, 2020
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A Facebook representative told the Journal that the company “has made no adjustments in order to have an effect on individual publishers. “
Jeffrey disagreed, saying that Mother Jones “specifically targeted” and that the rule set replaces “an INTENTIONAL replacement to damage outlets that do serious investigative journalism. “
It shared statistics that, according to the page of the month consistent with the prospects of the progressive medium Facebook, have grown from 10 million in mid-2017 (and a maximum of 20 million in early 2017) to less than five million according to the month of mid-2018, as a result of Facebook’s settings.
Facebook’s settings have also crushed Mother Jones from a monetary point of view, Jeffrey added.
“What did those rule settings mean for Mother Jones? [Something] like $400,000 to $600,000 a year,” Jeffrey tweeted. “This is vital for a news organization of our size. This year, we did everything we could not do. But that meant pay cuts for our best-paid employees, a loss of 401,000 people. “
As Jeffrey noted, the 10 most sensitive links on Facebook still come from sites like Dan Bongino, Breitbart and The Daily Wire. Last month, TheWrap looked intensely at why right-wing publishers like those thrive on Facebook. I count here.
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