{"id":1130,"date":"2016-05-18T19:37:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T19:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2016-05-18T19:37:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T19:37:10","slug":"wall-street-journal-demonstrates-propaganda-usage-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/05\/18\/wall-street-journal-demonstrates-propaganda-usage-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Journal demonstrates propaganda usage on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WSJ takes a look at how Facebook classifies users as either liberal or conservative, and then, how this yields either liberal or conservative perspectives (social media propaganda posters) within one&#8217;s news feed.<br \/>\nThis demonstrates the thesis of this blog &#8211; that social media has become the world&#8217;s most effective propaganda operation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>See Liberal Facebook and Conservative Facebook, Side by Side<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/graphics.wsj.com\/blue-feed-red-feed\/\">Blue Feed, Red Feed<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Update<\/strong>: I noticed that I mostly see left-wing propaganda posters in my news feed timeline. I assumed this was because the left-wing has better propagandists. However, an alternate explanation is that Facebook believes me to be left-wing and therefore drives more left-wing propaganda posters to my news feed. For the record, I do not belong to any political party (see the about page for more info) and do not support either major political party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WSJ takes a look at how Facebook classifies users as either liberal or conservative, and then, how this yields either liberal or conservative perspectives (social media propaganda posters) within one&#8217;s news feed. This demonstrates the thesis of this blog &#8211; that social media has become the world&#8217;s most effective propaganda operation: See Liberal Facebook and Conservative Facebook, Side by Side Source: Blue Feed, Red Feed Update: I noticed that I mostly see left-wing propaganda posters in my news feed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/05\/18\/wall-street-journal-demonstrates-propaganda-usage-on-facebook\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-practice","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}