Showing posts with label facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label facebook. Show all posts

Thursday, August 19, 2021

Facebook content report reportedly lacks content

Facebook released their Widely Viewed Content Report yesterday. My advice, take it with a grain of salt. Or better yet, take it with a overstuffed warehouse full of salt via Charlie Warzel's write-up in Galaxy Brain:
The quarterly snapshots distort timescales and obscure the context, which is crucial for understanding what on earth is really happening with a piece of content.

Also, the list of the most popular domains people are sharing I thought was interesting: 

Screenshot of list of top domains shared on Facebook

As a window into what people actually do with Facebook, what do we have? There's memes, music, news which, fair, everyone watches YouTube. Next up, it's off-platform transactions and fundraising in Amazon, Unicef, and GoFundMe.