Biden and Trump Voters Were Exposed to Radically Different Coverage of the Capitol Riot on Facebook
Posted on AllSides January 15th, 2021
From The Center
When rioters supporting President Donald Trump stormed the United States Capitol last week—bashing windows, attacking police, occupying the office of Nancy Pelosi—news coverage of the deadly event quickly started showing up in people’s social media feeds.
But people logging into Facebook weren’t all seeing the same stories. Some Facebook users with different political leanings saw the riot through very different lenses, according to data from The Markup’s Citizen Browser project, which tracks the links served to a nationwide panel of Facebook users.
By analyzing Facebook feed data from...
