US Presidential Election Was Most 'Talked About' Topic In 2016, Says Facebook (phys.org)

What may come as no surprise to Facebook users, the social media company announced in a blog post that the U.S. presidential election was the most "talked about" topic on Facebook in 2016. Phys.Org highlights the other most-discussed topics in its report: The bitterly contested election in which Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton was ranked as the leading issue, followed by Brazil's political developments which included the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff, Facebook said in a blog post. On the lighter side at number three was the runaway success of Pokemon Go, the location-based augmented reality game for smartphone users. Other subject matters shared among Facebook's 1.79 billion users were more sober, with the fourth leading topic the "Black Lives Matter" movement, followed by the election in the Philippines of Rodrigo Duterte. Number six on the list was the Olympic games, followed by Brexit, the Super Bowl and the deaths of rock star David Bowie and boxing icon Muhammad Ali. Facebook said it measured leading topics by how frequently an issue was mentioned in posts made between January 1 and November 27.

Comments

Election?

[frovingslosh]

We had an election? Why wasn't there any news about it?

Re:More like "most bitched about"

[The Grim Reefer]

...and so did you. Nobody said there was *only* two evils.

I voted Cthulhu. Because this time around, it was the lesser evil.

Re: More like "most bitched about"

[unixisc]

As the exit polls showed, people lied to the pollsters. The exit polls seemed to indicate that Clinton would win, but it was the vote counting from the various states, particularly the battleground ones, that ultimately demonstrated otherwise. The people who voted for Trump did like him, but were too pissed off at the media to give a shit about them. The ones who disliked both mainly sat out the election: that is why Clinton underperformed among groups that her campaign expected her to win w/ larger margins.

FUCK ABC NBC CBS FOX CNN MSNBC

[Thud457]

18 months to run an election that should take 6 weeks.
Time spent discussing the issues : 0%