Facebook Continues Its “Misinformation Crackdown.” Translation: NO CONSERVATIVE OPINION FOR YOU.

We’ve been telling you for a week now about Facebook’s upcoming changes to its algorithms, which will likely prevent you from seeing our posts even if you’re a follower of our Facebook page.  To that end, we strongly encourage you to follow our new FB GROUP, and we’re hearing a lot of positive feedback from those of you who’ve already joined that you’re finally seeing our posts in your feed again.  You can join by simply clicking “Join” right here.

According to this piece in the WSJ, Facebook has even more plans to squelch sites like ours than we thought.

First and foremost, it plans to start “ranking news sources in its feed based on user evaluations of credibility, a major step in its effort to fight false and sensationalist information…”

Here’s why that matters.

TROLLS.

Trolls make it a practice to report content that is perfectly credible, thereby tripping the algorithms to flag credible content as false or sensational and stop it from appearing in your feed.

From the sourcelink,

“The social-media giant will begin testing the effort next week by prioritizing news reports in its news feed from publications that users have rated in Facebook surveys as trustworthy, executives said Friday.”

Mark Zuckerberg outlined how this all will work in another message on his own page a few hours ago:

If you’re unable to see the embedded post above, here are the screenshots.

So, we’ll be curious to hear from y’all whether you’re asked by Facebook if you trust our site.

Here’s the other problem with the way Facebook is handling this.  We are not a news site.  We are an OPINION site.  We provide commentary on news stories.  We make it clear to everyone, right in our name, that we’re biased.  There should be no confusion about this whatsoever.

And yet, Facebook isn’t addressing how pages like ours, which are simply interest pages, and not news pages, will be handled by the new algorithms.

According to the WSJ, these Facebook changes will be “tested leading up to the 2018 U.S. midterm elections.”

Well, whaddya know.

And then there’s this:

In surveys, Facebook asked a small percentage of its users whether or not they recognized a publication and if so how much they trusted them. Facebook is taking the aggregate of those results to inform its news feed rankings.

So, if you’re a liberal, and Facebook randomly shows you the page “Chicks on the Right” and asks how much you trust it, how do you think you’d answer?

THAT IS THE PROBLEM.

And that’s why we’re trying so hard to tell you, in multiple ways and multiple times, that you need to bookmark or favorite our website and visit once a day, so that you don’t miss our content.  Don’t rely on Facebook to get you here.  And if you must, then join our group.

See you there! 🙂