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68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

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Re: 68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

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This shouldn't be surprising as Trump was recently found in a Gallup poll to be more admired than Obama and Biden.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/328193/donald-trump-michelle-ob...

> Overall, 18% of Americans name Trump, 15% name Obama, 6% Biden and 3% Fauci.

I do find it a tad bit curious that Biden, with a mere 6% approval rate, was certified to have won the election and Trump apparently lost it when he had thrice Biden's approval rate.

Re: 68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

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This shouldn't be surprising as Trump was recently found in a Gallup poll to be more admired than Obama and Biden. https://news.gallup.com/poll/328193/donald-trump-michelle-ob... > Overall, 18% of Americans name Trump, 15% name Obama, 6% Biden and 3% Fauci. I do find it a tad bit curious that Biden, with a mere 6% approval rate, was certified to have won the election and Trump apparently lost it when he had thrice Bi…

That's a remarkable misinterpretation of the survey.

> Eighteen percent of the survey's respondents named Trump as their most admired man, compared to 15 percent who named Obama and 6 percent who named President-elect Joe Biden.

Going from "named the most admired by a plurality" to "the most admired" is exactly the same flaw as in first-past-the-post voting.

Re: 68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

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post #4

presume its okay if its pro-biden :)

The US is proveably 50/50-ish

Unless Facebook has a strongly biased audience, it seems likely that their algorithms should represent the population.

68% pro Trump does not.

Re: 68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

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post #4

presume its okay if its pro-biden :)

The US is proveably 50/50-ish Unless Facebook has a strongly biased audience, it seems likely that their algorithms should represent the population. 68% pro Trump does not.

> The US is proveably 50/50-ish

The “ish” does a lot of work there.

> Unless Facebook has a strongly biased audience is

If it doesn't, it would be one of the few media sources that didn't. Why wouldn't it?

Re: 68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

#10

Ben Shapiro and Dan Bongino, and 'conservative media' are alt-right now? Great journalism here. This doofus author clearly shows what he's about.

You're going to have to explain why you don't think Ben Shapiro is alt-right, he's basically a poster child for them.
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