Facebook's political echo chamber
1 big thing
Axios
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🗓️ 9 September 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:29.6 | Ove. Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. We made it to Wednesday. It's September 9th. I'm Naila Boodoo. Here's how we're making you smarter today. There are so many more unemployed Americans than open jobs in every |
| 0:46.8 | single state. Plus is Joe Biden struggling with Hispanic voters? But first, Mark Zuckerberg on the Facebook |
| 0:55.6 | echo chamber. That's today's one big thing. |
| 1:01.2 | One of the biggest criticisms of Facebook is that it's an echo chamber. |
| 1:08.0 | Mike Allen interviewed Mark Zuckerberg about this very topic on Axios on HBO. |
| 1:15.0 | Facebook, the reality is, is a real right-wing echo chamber. |
| 1:19.5 | Well, look, I think your characterization, frankly, is just wrong. |
| 1:24.5 | I don't think that the service is a right-wing echo chamber, to use your words. |
| 1:31.6 | Everyone can use their voice and can find media that they trust that |
| 1:36.7 | reflects the opinions and the life experiences that they're having. |
| 1:40.8 | And Mike's here with us now to tell us more about the interview. |
| 1:43.6 | The point that he was making was there's this meme, as he put it, that the algorithm just |
| 1:49.3 | feed you things that are going to enrage you. And he said that's not how the systems |
| 1:54.4 | actually work. But here's a between the lines. A New York Times reporter runs a |
| 1:59.8 | Twitter feed Facebook top 10 that lists the most engaged US Facebook link posts |
| 2:06.7 | of the previous 24 hours, and listen to Mondays. |
| 2:09.9 | Number one, Fox News. |
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