Political Content is on the Decline on Facebook, According to the Latest 'Widely Viewed …

This was… unexpected, Today, Meta has released its latest Widely Viewed Content Report for Facebook, covering Q3 2022, which, for the first time, isn’t riddled with data gaps due to some of the most popular posts in the app later being removed by Meta for violating its platform rules. Which is pretty much the opposite of the intended purpose of this report. Meta originally came up with its Widely Viewed Content Report, which shows the most viewed posts and links in the app, as a means to counter the narrative that its algorithms help to amplify right-wing and extremist content – though thus far, it hasn’t really succeeded in showing that this isn’t the case, necessarily. But this time around, in combination with Meta’s effort to reduce political content in people’s Facebook feeds, the most shared and viewed content lists do look a little different, with much less political-related material in the mix. So what are people on Facebook checking out? In essence, it’s a mixed bag of supermarket tabloid rubbish: a teacher fired for dancing on TikTok, pictures of women who peaked in high school, Drake taking photos of a random lady in a restaurant, Madonna’s son as a
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