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Thu. 08/19 - The #1 Site on Facebook is a Green Bay Packers Alumni Company?

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Facebook has released a report of their most widely viewed content, but the #1 most viewed link on the platform shows how the report isn’t exactly proving the point they’re trying to make. Plus, are realtors engineering weird listing photos so they’ll go viral? And it turns out we’ve been getting blue moons entirely wrong for at least forty years. Sponsor: Indeed, Get a free $75 credit at Indeed.com/goodnews Links: How an Obscure Green Bay Packers Site Became the Biggest Thing on Facebook (Wired) Everyone's fighting about a dating simulator again (Garbage Day) Facebook releases a report on the most-viewed content in News Feed (The Verge) Facebook reveals top posts but still won’t share key data about disinformation (Ars Technica) Knight in Zillow: A realtor explains what is going on in this bonkers real estate listing. (Slate) The August 2021 full moon is, somehow, a Blue Moon. Here's why. (Space.com) We'll have a Blue Moon this weekend (EarthSky) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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welcome to the cotkey ride home for thursday, August 19th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, Facebook has released a report of their most widely viewed content, but the number one most viewed link on the platform shows how the report isn't exactly proving the point they're trying to make.

0:56.0

Plus, are realtors engineering weird listing photos so they'll go viral?

1:01.6

And it turns out we've been getting blue moons entirely wrong for at least 40 years.

1:08.1

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:13.6

Partially in response to the regularly documented fact that the posts garnering the most

1:19.7

interactions on their platform every day are from biased, sometimes misinformation-laden

1:24.7

sources, Facebook announced that it will be publishing quarterly reports

1:28.9

showing what content actually gets the most views overall. Therefore, what is seen by the most

1:36.2

people, not just interacted with the most. The first of these reports came out yesterday

1:41.1

showing public news feed content seen by U.S.-based users from April 1st

1:46.5

through June 30th. The report includes the top 20 domain sources, link posts, pages, and general

1:53.4

posts. Despite the fact that New York Times reporter Kevin Roos' manually run Twitter account

1:59.0

that posts the top-performing link posts in the U.S.

2:02.2

on Facebook every single day based on interactions shows folks like Ben Shapiro and Sean Hannity making

2:07.9

it into the top 10 nearly every day. Neither of them made the cut for top views in Facebook's

2:14.9

official reports. Aruces data, by the way, comes from Facebook's publicly accessible analytics site,

2:20.5

CrowdTangle.

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