Category «Politics»

Is Facebook killing the Far Right? A Report.

The Far Right is feeling targeted on social platforms. Britain’s Nigel Farage directly questioned Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on the very subject, claiming that: “right-of-center political opinions” had been affected by a change in Facebook algorithms in January of this year, and that “on average, we’re down about 25 percent over a course of this …

Finnish Presidential Election on Facebook

While President Sauli Niinistö’s own Facebook presence is very modest, he was by far the most popular and widely covered candidate on Facebook during the 2018 Finnish Presidential Election. EzyInsights’ data shows how people engaged with media coverage of candidates and their Facebook pages’ content.  President Niinistö was clearly the most visible candidate on social media President …

#MeToo, o evento mais viral de 2017

O que mais bombou nas mídias sociais este ano? Furacões, ataques terroristas, fake news, bots russos? Que nada.  #MeToo foi o maior sucesso do ano. As mídias sociais desempenharam um papel importante na transmissão de informações. O poder das mídias sociais está em sua capacidade de compartilhar informações. Os refugiados podem se manter em contato …

How Trump is still winning on Facebook

What we already know: Donald Trump regularly criticises the mainstream news media in the USA, especially the New York Times, claiming it is unfair and one sided. He notably uses Twitter to directly address the public, but how influential is he on Facebook? We know that Facebook’s newsfeed algorithm is optimised for engagement, by design …

French Presidential Election 2017 on Facebook – the Final Round

Updated Daily: French Presidential Election 2017 on Facebook – the Final Round The result after the Election on Sunday 7.5.2017 A longer post with more data on the first election round with all 11 presidential candidates is available here, beware the long loading time as there are a lot of graphs! https://ezyinsights.com/blog/2017/04/02/election-presidentielle-francaise-de-2017/

Analysis: French Presidential Election 2017 on Facebook

French Presidential Election 2017 on Facebook – the First Round This page archives our realtime analysis of Facebook engagement for the candidates of French Presidential Election first election round. The first election round took place on 23 April 2017. There were 11 candidates altogether. Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, François Fillon and Benôit …