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Facebook reaches for balance

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Facebook reaches for balance

Can fresh data alter the belief that it's a right-wing echo chamber?

Casey Newton
Nov 12, 2020
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In July I wrote about the curious case of the New York Times journalist who was driving Facebook crazy, and the tweets that executives posted in response. At issue was (my friend) Kevin Roose’s use of the Facebook-owned tool CrowdTangle to record which pages are getting the most engagement on the network on any given day; he rou…

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