Facebook Users Interacted Most With Articles From Fox News, CNN and Breitbart In Month Leading Up To Nov 10

Quartz's charts and visualization service The Atlas, has released an insightful chart that shows the "total reader interactions with articles on Facebook" between October 11, 2016 and November 10, 2016. What's surprising is that Breitbart beat a list of establishment media outlets in total Facebook interactions. By far the source with the most interacted articles was Fox News, as it had more than 44 million people interact with its articles. CNN and Breitbart were neck-and-neck with more than 18 million interactions.

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I got most of my news from the Onion

[jfdavis668]

It seemed to make as much sense as anywhere else.

Re:I got most of my news from the Onion

[saloomy]

This. It's insane to me as a person who grew up overseas how the US news orgs conduct themselves. Gone are the days when you heard the news anchors recite the facts of the day, letting you know what new laws were adopted, who did what, anything notable that happened, and who died. Watch BBC World Service for accurate reporting on US events. It will fry your brain less than the absolute garbage the various news orgs put out these days.

I can not believe news organizations are actually endorsing politicians! Its effectively saying: We are for Candidate X, so anything we are going to report to you on Candidate X is going to be portrayed in a positive light. Anything their opponents do or way will be portrayed negatively. We are not fair, or balanced, we are encouraging you to pick our choice, who is Candidate X. Fucking rubbish. I don't need your opinions, thats not why you travel with the president. I need the facts, and just that.

Re:I got most of my news from the Onion

[Marsoupial]

It is almost impossible to report news without some sort of bias, implicit or explicit. The way I get my news is by reading both liberal- and conservative-leaning news outlets. The truth is often somewhere in between.

Re:I got most of my news from the Onion

[Anonymous Coward]

The saying goes:

The news isn't the news. The news is how you should feel about the news. And the MSM lost it's 5th column power (rooting out corruption) a long time ago...and this election it lost it's persuasive power.

Re:I got most of my news from the Onion

[Archangel Michael]

Well there are two parties in the US that dominate. The media is pretty much aligned with one or the other. Most are aligned (D) and Fox is more or less aligned with (R).

If the Media/News were reporting actual "news" (like WikiLeaks dribble) Hillary would have lost by a lot more.

Re:I got most of my news from the Onion

[Dutch Gun]

I don't care that major media outlets are biased. What I find troubling is that media outlets continue to claim to be unbiased when they they are obviously are not (both left and right).

Re:I got most of my news from the Onion

[tsotha]

It is almost impossible to report news without some sort of bias, implicit or explicit.

But that's no excuse not to give it the old college try. I expect people to have viewpoints different than my own, but I don't like to be deliberately manipulated.

Re:I got most of my news from the Onion

[Chas]

It is almost impossible to report news without some sort of bias, implicit or explicit.

No it's not. The news media has simply stopped trying. AT ALL.

Re: I got most of my news from the Onion

[Anonymous Coward]

You've got to be kidding me. Among so many sources the Wiki leaks of the DNC emails showed how corrupt the MSM is. I saw the leftist propaganda the year Clinton first ran for President back when I did not know or care anything about politics. I was just shocked at the evening news propaganda for Clinton and against Bush. He'll, I assumed Clinton would win because he had the "look", but I was shocked and disgusted that the first time on my life when I paid attention to politics I was watching propaganda on the evening news like I would expect out of the Soviet Union. It took me a few decades to realize a huge percentage of the population can't see the propaganda and fall for it and they all vote Democratic. Since then I have found those who are immune to news propaganda either don't vote or vote Republican or Libertarian.

Re:I got most of my news from the Onion

[saloomy]

No. Evil is as much defined by history and its victors as it is by the consensus of the public. Is America evil? Most would say no, but it did pop two nuclear bombs to effectively end the Japanese campaign to fight in their own vicinity. America also committed mass genocide when it moved westward and ended an entire civilization of millions of people (Native Americans). It keeps humans captive with no day in court (Guantanamo Bay), kills human being ex-judiciously (drone strikes and collateral damage), and supports oppressive dictators who play ball (Saddam Hussein is given a key to the city of Detroit).

Surely we don't consider America totally evil. They gave us the west coast and a subdued Japanese empire, allowing for the rest of the oriental countries to flourish. Back then though, I'm sure many modern SJWs would have campaigned against those efforts.

Let me be clear. I'm not condoning the bombings of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. I am not condoning genocide either.

We see trump and his alt-right compatriots,racist and incendiary remarks towards illegal immigrants, and muslims, and are quick to paint him with Hitlers colors, but that is not an accurate depiction of the man. He did not make disparaging remarks about all Mexicans, or all Mexican Americans for that matter. He made disparaging remarks about "rapists, and murderers", or "bad hombres". He wants to stop the bad ones from importing massive amounts of narcotics, smuggling in convicts from Mexico and most of Central and South America. I don't necessarily agree with that policy, but I see where he is coming from. Lets be honest with ourselves on illegal immigration. It is a crime. There is a sovereign state that demands an entry process for immigration. Millions of honest and hard working foreigners work effortlessly to qualify and seek to relocate their lives in hope of a better future with more freedoms than they presently have. Those who are here illegally are effectively cutting in line to get here, and undermining the country they are trying to become a part of from the get go. That is not fair. It is not fair to those who have followed procedures, it is not fair to those who took the time and followed the law.

If I break into your house, and squat in it, instead of working hard to afford to purchase it, I would fully expect that I will be evicted, if no charges are brought on me for breaking and entering. Even if I have lived in it for a long time, and have no where else to go, I am still breaking the law and deserve to be kicked out. Trump isn't even going that far either. He has stated that he wants to deport the criminal elements either, those who have committed terrible crimes. I don't have a problem with that. Why do you? There is a reason we have an immigration process and a department we spend a lot of money to enforce it. It's to vet who we give visa's to, and who we allow to naturalize. If these Mexicans were Arabs, and it was Iraq, or Iran, or Sudan on our Southern Border, would deporting them still be such a huge issue?

Back to trump: I believe he has a lot of bad positions, and he surrounds himself with some very questionable people in my book. But we elected him, and we have to see what he renders. We don't have a choice in that matter. I don't believe for a moment that he or anyone he is bringing into the White House are out to harm America. I believe they are patriots and their intentions are good.

I don't believe he is evil, but because the news outlets want to decide for me, I can not rely on their reporting to receive fair facts. This is worse due to the consequence of not knowing what really happens in politics. The best defense against an evil government is a well informed public with free access to information, and the freedom of the press is supposed to gaurantee us that. But what happens when the "free press" aligns itself with a falsehood? I can no longer be informed, and can not decide for myself what is evil. Thats the real problem here.

Re:I got most of my news from the Onion

[cfalcon]

Psh. The truth is in the Venn diagram where they intersect. Everything else requires further research. If a right wing website claims because of A, B will happen and is terrible and C is already happening, and a left wing website claims because of A, B will happen and is great, and D will happen, your conclusions are "A happened" and "pundits agree that B will happen". If you care about C and D, whether the pundits are mislead about B, or the merits of B, you need to keep reading.

Re:I got most of my news from the Onion

[oakgrove]

The way I get my news is by reading both liberal- and conservative-leaning news outlets.

So now instead of being misinformed, you'll be twice as misinformed!

Re:I got most of my news from the Onion

[dinfinity]

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.c...

Wonder what percentage consulted real news outlets

[JoeyRox]

Like the NY Times, WSJ, Washington Post, and LA Times instead of infotainment news sources like CNN, Fox News, and Breitbart. Not to say the newspapers I listed are not without their own institutional bias but at least they have actual investigative journalists on the payroll and at least try to be objective.

No alternatives

[Dan East]

Here's why:
http://www.pewresearch.org/pj_...

The only mainstream media to the right is Fox News. Breitbart is even further right, and that's one of the only other alternatives. However if you look to the left, there are a dozen news organizations (including PBS, which just seems wrong somehow, being government funded).

So what this means is that FB users that identify with the liberal news organizations have their "interactions" divided across those dozen news organizations on the left (CNN, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, PBS, Washington Post, on and on). Whereas those with conservative views only had a couple of options to choose from. Thus those couple options on the right got more interactions because they were not diluted across so many news choices.

Re:No alternatives

[jrumney]

Or maybe America's idea of centre is fucked up.

Re:No alternatives

[Archangel Michael]

Or maybe the world's view of "center" is fucked up.Because if your idea of "center" is Liberal Socialist ... what is right? Barely socialist?

Re:No alternatives

[Tablizer]

What are centrist views then? What's an example?

ACA is based on a paper from a right-wing think thank, so why is it "left"? Single payer would be "left" I agree, but ACA looks centrist, or even slightly right to me.

Gun control? Most of the population agree to the limits and background checks proposed by Hillary. Wouldn't that make them "centrist"?

And why is climate change "left"? The vast majority of the world doesn't believe it's a hoax. The right are very lonely on the hoax position.

Breitbart

[Anonymous Coward]

Breitbart values it's credibility and doesn't indulge the the crazy "fake" news. They aren't perfect, but they're also no worse than the rest. If Breitbart is what GoogleFacebookTwitterCNBCetal are calling "fake" news then this whole "fake" news meme is exactly the kind of bullshit I suspect it is.

And Slashdot posts the most stories about Facebook

[Gussington]

Seriously, fucking give up with Facebook stories, we know it's shit so leave us in peace.
Is Slashdot getting paid to keep Facebook on the front page, it sure seems that way....

Re: Wonder what percentage consulted real news out

[tomhath]

NYT and WaPo both list all credibility this election cycle. Pretty much everything they published was anti-Trump opinion. NYT admitted it, the Post is still in denial.

I get my news from real sources

[WillAffleckUW]

Real sources like discarded fish wrappings, poems written on leaves, the patterns on clouds in the sky

Hey, it's probably more accurate.

Never trust the MSM. In just one day, Washington Post wrote 18 articles attacking Bernie Sanders, from 12 writers.

In just one day.

They don't want you to know what's going on, just like they don't want you to see the seven fully operational NSA data collection complexes inside the USA (not the one you think you know about).

Just like they don't want you to know that all US government drones purchased since July 2016 have had line of sight tracking and facial recognition software. Every single one.

Think about who controls all that in a couple of months.

Oh, and the Chinese get feeds from your cell phones. Including Apple. Not just Android.

Re:And Slashdot posts the most stories about Faceb

[whipslash]

No

Re:Now one trusts the mainstream media anymore

[whoever57]

Your news filter is out of calibration. None of those articles actually say what you claim (apart from your own blog).

Re:More Americans get their news from the Daily Sh

[Tablizer]

[More Americans get their news from the Daily Show] ... A damn comedy show. Pathetic.

Fox News is also a comedy show. Most viewers just don't realize that.

Why is it The Right sucks at comedy and The Left sucks at AM radio?

Re:Wonder what percentage consulted real news outl

[Nostalgia4Infinity]

The Wikileaks emails revealed that The Washington Post hosted a joint fundraiser with the Clinton campaign, although the Post was unlisted at the fundraiser. “We were never going to list since the lawyers told us we cannot do it,” DNC Finance Director Jordan Kaplan wrote to DNC Election Strategies Adviser Anu Rangappa. http://observer.com/2016/08/wi...