FoxNews.com Not Too Thrilled About Its Exclusion From Facebook’s ‘Most Shared Articles’ List

by Alex Alvarez | 1:27 pm, December 2nd, 2011

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Yesterday, a post on FoxNews.com asked whether Facebook is “acting unsocially” by not including major news outlets (like Fox News, as well as MSNBC) in its list of “The Most Shared Articles of 2011.”

The article shares examples of FoxNews.com stories that, it says, “should have made the list,” but did not, including one on how to deal with a potential zombie apocalypse. A Facebook spokesperson explained a bit of the “secret formula” used to compile the list:

“We looked for articles with the most likes, shares and referral traffic,” Facebook spokeswoman Malorie Lucich told FoxNews.com.

But the list isn’t based on those numbers.

Instead, Lucich explained, it uses a mystery metric — a recipe that combines all of them, divides by a cupful of clicked links, and adds a dash of secret sauce — and ultimately ignores stories that readers would assume they could find on the list, no matter how you measure it.

A quick look through the list shows a whole lot of CNN, quite a bit of Yahoo (but, curiously, no Aol), a sprinkling of Huffington Post links, a hearty helping of The New York Times, three Washington Post articles, one story from The Wall Street Journal and… that’s it. Six sources for 40 stories.

Is FoxNews.com right to be (it seems) a little miffed at being excluded? AND, HI, WHERE IS MEDIAITE ON THE LIST? Just kidding. (Not kidding.) ((Kidding.))

In my experience, most friends who still use Facebook for things other than posting tacky engagement shoots (Love ya!) link primarily (even overwhelmingly) to NYT articles and YouTube videos. How ’bout yours?

h/t FoxNews.com via Poynter

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http://twitter.com/kabmn00 kevin

The most worthless article I have ever read.
Gloves T. Donahue

More news from the Internets:

“Under assault for liberal bias, Politico’s traffic dives”

http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/02/under-assault-for-liberal-bias-politicos-traffic-dives/#ixzz1fPBPhjsh
Moderate

“and adds a dash of secret sauce ”

That means “to hell with the numbers, we will report it as we see it”.
Joseph Wilson

Since the viewership for Fox News skews much older demographically than MSNBC and CNN, I assume that many are like my 76-year-old mother and have no computer to connect to the Internet. The hypothesis finds support from a recent university study which found Fox News viewers to be the least informed of news network viewers when given current event questions based on facts. Although more mature people are using Facebook, its users skew much younger than the Fox demographic of older, white men who are retired.
Anonymous

The only way to watch Faux…Noise is with the mute on .

Fox does get the babes right , everything else is distorted .
Anonymous

Bias from an organization that hosted an Obamathon? Say it aint so.
Anonymous

Sounds like you have some white guilt going on in your head! The comment above shows you have some kind of social problems by thinking you can generalize a whole audience… But dont generalize the left wing to the guy crapping on cop cars or the rape and drugs abuse at OWS … Right!
Anonymous

Well since according to Nielsen the median FOX Noise viewers age is 65 and they’re the higest among viewers in the 55+ category amongst cable news channels you look like the total Humboldt county retard you actually are….
Anonymous

I know if FAUX cut out the false victimization like all Cons have we wiouldnt have to be worrying about it….
Anonymous

Where did you glean “white guilt” from the above comment? He is not “generalizing” an audience, he is referencing the study on cable news demographics and their knowledge of current events. So no, much to your chagrin, he does not have “some kind of social problems,” as you so eloquently stated, he is simply referencing a university-researched study. Making a point that is supported by a study is much different than saying all left wingers crap on cop cars and rape people. In fact the more I think about it, maybe you’re the one that has “some kind of social problems.”
Anonymous

That the same politico that was founded and still co-run by a former Reagan aide?
Anonymous

I actually agree with you on that.
Anonymous

The daily caller….now at least you got some facts from a real reputable independent source. .Of course the daily caller speaks the gospil truth.
Anonymous

I mad that exact same point about a week ago. Why do you think the seniors are kicking themselves for who they voted into office in 2010. At least I educated my parents and all the seniors in the condo complex… And you know what, I don’t tell them not to believe Fox or believe MSNBC.. I show them the facts via many different fact checking sights and alot of them know how to use the computer… Man, they were fit to be tied when they found out the snowjobe Fox and am hate radio gave them.
Anonymous

It’s like what, 6 or 7 studies now that show Fox viewers as the most missinformed viewers of all ages. period.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

This will give the aging-Boomer-perpetual-crybabies at FOX at least three weeks worth of material.
Pablo

And yet they still dominate the competition in the demo. That’s weird.
Pablo

Oh, you mean the one that doesn’t know the right answers to its own questions? http://www.mediaite.com/tv/left-rejoices-as-poll-of-612-new-jerseyans-declares-fox-news-makes-people-stupid/
Anonymous

Under assault for lack of brains, gloves fails to see that politico is run by a former reagan aide. Also facts are notoriously liberal.
Anonymous

So dumb! Politico’s CEO is the late Ronald Reagan’s former personal assistant! Also, this is more like a post hoc assessment. It’s like the wingnuts who like blaming “Obama’s policies” when the Dow falls 300 points on one day, but, say nothing when it jumps 400pts the following day. Simultaneity does not infer causation.
Anonymous

White guilt? What the fuk does that even mean or relate to his very cogent post? He didn’t even say anything about race, but that’s all your feeble mind could react to.
Anonymous

It means jack. Argumentum ad populum.
Darr247

That’s where at least half their ratings come from… 5 TV’s in every McD’s tuned to faux newz on mute with the worst speller in the USA doing their closed captions.
Anonymous

Are you suggesting the picture passed by rightturds of a guy crapping on a cop car being of someone from a OWS? Thats funny since that picture was posted on the Internet in 2010 before the OWS movement. Could he be a Teahadist? Who kjnows?