Facebook is overrun by right wing garbage

Facebook overrun by COVID vaccine lies even as it denied fueling hesitancy, report says

Did 901 people die of COVID-19 in a single day in Florida?
USA TODAY's @baylisswagner looked into how data interpretation went very wrong for 10,000+ Facebook users. https://t.co/D49AuMkwyV
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) September 10, 2021

Last month, WaPo reported that Facebook was allowing prominent Republicans to raise money by associating migrants with the surge of coronavirus infections in the US.

The claim had been rejected by doctors and fact-checkers at the time.https://t.co/yEEti2JIZn
— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) September 17, 2021

I wrote about the Facebook circle of life:
– Build problematic systems
– Research their flaws and find serious problems
– Bury the findings to avoid bad press
– Get even worse press when the findings are leaked
– Change nothing https://t.co/UUxw7qYG08
— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) September 16, 2021

Another devastating story about Facebook. You think you know the worst of it, but there’s always more. https://t.co/YubMs2uVl3
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) September 17, 2021

Can't stress how wild the ivermectin Facebook groups have become. So many people insisting to each other to never go to an ER, in part because they might not get ivermectin, but sometimes because they fear nurses are killing them on purpose "for the insurance money."
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) September 13, 2021

Unreal: "One potential solution remains off the table: holding high-profile users to the same standards as everyone else." https://t.co/VMWWNjbfmZ
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) September 13, 2021

"It's important to overcome the message that Facebook has been trying to project that we really can't tell whether social media use has anything to do with political divisiveness and partisan hatred. That just doesn't match up with facts.” https://t.co/RV2hnOahf6
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) September 13, 2021

From today’s @ReliableSources – broadcast exclusive: new NYU study shows that Misinformation from partisan news sources gets 6x more clicks than real news on Facebook. 68% of engagement from far-right sources comes from misinfo – 36% from far-left sources. https://t.co/wW4MCOsw5X
— John Avlon (@JohnAvlon) September 5, 2021

Misinformation on Facebook got six times more clicks than factual news during the 2020 election, study says

I'll say this once again: @Facebook could end the anti-vax death cult in this nation tomorrow. It's not hard.

They know who the sources of this poison are, and could shut them down with a few clicks and save countless lives.

But they won't.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) September 2, 2021

Two-thirds of all Facebook users who join extremist groups are guided to them by Facebook itself https://t.co/xWUa7V1J20
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) August 30, 2021

Baseball Twitter accounts I follow

I live in Baltimore so some sites are about the Orioles. I will add to this list and try to sort it into categories

Retrosheet

@Retrosheet

Retrosheet.org has information on games going back to 1871. If you know when you saw a game, you can find the box score.

Would it dong?

@would_it_dong

In how many parks would that home run have been a home run?

Orioles Player Development

@OsPlayerDev

Official Twitter account for the Orioles minor league system. Prospect rankings are here.

Baseball Fight Club

@mlb_fights

Fights at games

MiLB-Transactions

@tombaseball29

Minor league and major league transactions

MLB Foreign Substance Checks

@StickyCheck

Checks of players by umpires

Nathan Ruiz

@NathanSRuiz

Baltimore Sun Orioles beat writer

Stats By STATS

@StatsBySTATS

Stats for baseball and other sports

EddieMurray33.com

@EddieMurray_33

Hall of Fame player has a Twitter account and web site. He’s my favorite Orioles player.

MLB Draft League

@mlbdraftleague

New baseball league sponsored by MLB

The 1971 Orioles: Daily Report

@1970Orioles

Now tweeting the 1971 season when the Orioles lost the World Series to the Pirates but had four pitchers who won 20 games

Minor League Promos

@MiLBPromos

promotions and giveaways in the minor leagues

Kevin Brown

@kevinnbrown

Orioles broadcaster

InsideAccess1057

@IA1057TheFan

Baltimore sports radio show

The Baseball Newsletter

@bbletter

Daily newsletter

Baseball History Nut

@nut_history

Old baseball photos

The Athletic Baltimore

@TheAthleticBAL

sports coverage

John Means

@JMeans25

Orioles best pitcher

Reading Fightin Phils

@ReadingFightins

Phillies AA team

Delmarva Shorebirds

@shorebirds

Orioles minor league team

National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

@baseballhall

The Baseball HOF in Cooperstown

Mike Elias

@MElias

Orioles general manager

MASN

@masnsports

Orioles/Nationals TV network and a web site. Follow individual writers.

Anthony Santander

@roller_mvp

Orioles outfielder

Umpire Auditor

@UmpireAuditor

worst umpire calls

Grayson Rodriguez

@G_Rodriguez16

Top minor league Orioles pitching prospect

Baseball By The Book

@BaseballBookPod

podcast of interviews with authors of baseball books

Rich DubroffMLB

@RichDubroffMLB

covers the Orioles for Baltimorebasebll.com

Matt Kremnitzer

@mattkremnitzer

Orioles writer for Press Box Online

Cedric Mullins

@cedmull30

Orioles All-Star Outfielder

Gregg Olson

@GreggOlson30

Orioles closer in 1989/1990s

Baseball Prospectus

@baseballpro

Analysis

The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)

@sabr

Baseball research

1960s Baseball

@Baseball1960s

Baseball history from the 1960s

O’s Stats & Facts

@BirdlandStats

Trivia and stats

Baltimore Negro Leagues

@BaltimoreEG

Elite Giant and Black Sox history

Jim Palmer

@Jim22Palmer

Hall of Fame Orioles pitcher

Ross Grimsley

@rgrimsley2

Orioles pitcher in the 1970s

Baseball Reference

@baseball_ref

Stats and history

Sporting News MLB

@sn_mlb

Baseball coverage

Eutaw Street Report

@EutawStReport

fan based Orioles site

MLB Communications

@MLB_PR

Major League Baseball Communications Department

The Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA)

@peloteros_MLB

The players association

Facebook is a cesspool

I rarely use it anymore. They have done a poor job of keeping right-wing lies off their site.

My first story for the NYT is up. It's a look at how Facebook has tried and failed over the last two years to deal with the racist abuse of English soccer players. https://t.co/sB5y0RR9Vw
— Ryan Mac🙃 (@RMac18) August 11, 2021

NEW:

"Seriously? People are literally dying" – White House officials texted each other as Facebook deflected during vaccine misinformation talks.

What led Biden to say Facebook was "killing people?"@KannoYoungs and I show the months long battlehttps://t.co/KIVZ8bws6h
— Cecilia Kang (@ceciliakang) August 10, 2021

Why did FB choose last night as the moment to shut down NYU researchers' accounts?

According to one of them, @LauraEdelson2, it happened "hours after we informed Facebook that we were studying the spread of disinformation about Jan. 6."

cc @FBoversight https://t.co/1gYMfe7cUY
— David Gilbert (@daithaigilbert) August 4, 2021

"Researchers found that vaccine resistance among people who get their info from Facebook was second only to Newsmax viewers…” https://t.co/vL9TIp1pNH
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 28, 2021

NEW w/@merica: Emails between the Biden campaign and Facebook show how worried and pissed off Democrats were getting with Facebook in the final weeks of the presidential campaign. https://t.co/QifOadaAVY
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) June 23, 2021

The top-performing link posts by U.S. Facebook pages in the last 24 hours are from:

1. Ben Shapiro
2. Ben Shapiro
3. Dan Bongino
4. Ben Shapiro
5. Dan Bongino
6. Ben Shapiro
7. Ben Shapiro
8. Dan Bongino
9. ForAmerica
10. Fox News
— Facebook's Top 10 (@FacebooksTop10) June 17, 2021

1. @NewsWhip's list of top Facebook publishers from May shows how Facebook's algorithm creates a distorted reality that DOES NOT EXIST IN ANY OTHER CONTEXT

The Daily Wire, a right-wing aggregation site, was 5X bigger than the NYT, which employs thousands of journalists pic.twitter.com/b7mceZLVys
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 11, 2021

Trump may still be banned from Facebook, but Trumpism dominates the platform i https://t.co/Ay7lyksywY
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) May 5, 2021

Facebook banned Trump from its platform on June 7, however, over the past two months, Facebook has had no problem running some 2,000 ads from Trump’s Save America Joint Fundraising Committee. https://t.co/3nXyJB5zrE
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 12, 2021

Facebook is a cesspool of anti-vaccine misinformation

Facebook must do more to stop this.

New + exclusive from me + @BrandyZadrozny:

Anti-vaxx Groups on Facebook Are Changing Into “Dance Parties” on Facebook to Avoid Detectionhttps://t.co/j4soOnBY17
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) July 21, 2021

"The change happened hours after CNN Business asked Facebook why the page full of anti-vaccination falsehoods was easy to find. If this sounds familiar, it's because almost the exact same thing happened with Facebook-owned Instagram two years ago…” https://t.co/lX8R0P0a4L
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 21, 2021

As this piece notes, Fox and GOP pols are more important in promoting vaccine lies than Facebook. Facebook plays a role, but is not the biggest offender. https://t.co/6rmkxrrbjG
— Michael D'Antonio (@MBDAntonio) July 20, 2021

Is Facebook ever going to address COVID misinformation? Or will it continue to pass the buck? https://t.co/EQ1iMdnJyd
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 17, 2021

This is Facebook’s own data. https://t.co/wEyKJ9YFHX
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) July 17, 2021

🚨 NEW: Before the White House's Olivia Rodrigo saga this week, 11 out of the top 15 performing vaccine-related posts on Facebook were negative or anti-vax.

We break down who's behind those posts + measure the impact of the WH's buzzy digital play:https://t.co/NjeaNimHP3
— FWIW (@FWIWnews) July 16, 2021

“I’ve told Mark Zuckerberg directly that when we gather groups of people who are not vaccinated and we ask them, why aren’t you vaccinated, and they tell us things that are wrong, we ask them where they’ve heard that, the most common answer is Facebook.” https://t.co/x1GodUreuZ
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) July 17, 2021

Still on Facebook: this is the leading online purveyor of misinformation, false claims and other dubious facts about Covid and vaccines.
By ⁦@sheeraf⁩ https://t.co/C2g55ZYdyY
— Cliff Levy (@cliffordlevy) July 24, 2021