In der Diskussion um die Dominanz rechtsgerichteter Akteure in der Facebook-Öffentlichkeit gibt es einen originellen Beitrag: Laura Hazard Owen hat die NewsFeeds von US-Wähler*innen analysiert und insgesamt nicht so viele politische Inhalte festgestellt (was viele Gründe haben kann). Interessant ist aber auch folgende Beobachtung: "While my sample was small, the type of political content I saw most frequently was the 'tweet screenshot' — a post that simply consisted of a screenshot of a tweet by a political figure or a tweet about politics, sometimes along a line or two of commentary. Tweet screenshots accounted for 30% of the political posts I saw. While Twitter is still used by far fewer people than Facebook, it’s interesting to see how tweets make their way onto Facebook and Instagram. (It also raises questions about whether and how Facebook will be able to fact-check these tweet screenshots, which are just image files.)"

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