BuzzFeed reports on a “sentiment analysis” that reveals posts about Facebook have actually grown progressively unfavorable.
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In 2004 news posts about Facebook, the most typical word coupling with the just-launched social media, was “college students.” In 2017, the most typical word paring was “fake news.”
That’s one the findings of a brand-new “sentiment analysis” performed by researcher Joe Hovde for BuzzFeed that took a look at 87,000 posts about Facebook released by U.S.A. Today, The New York Times, the Guardian and BuzzFeed because around the time the social media released.
BuzzFeed press reporter Charlie Warzel provides other essential outcomes, such as how media protection of Facebook “turned negative almost overnight” in the consequences of the 2016 United States governmental election. “And it has largely stayed that way.”
To run the analysis, Hoyde scored words on a scale varying from -5 for the most unfavorable words and +5 for the most favorable. An unfavorable word like “fake” was scored -3. A favorable word like “growth” was scored +2.
Here, for instance, is a chart demonstrating how belief about Facebook altered for Times posts in between 2006 and January2018
Sentiment analysis for New York Times posts about Facebook in between 2006 and late January 2018.
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The research study, as Warzel explains, is by no ways definitive. But it’s a quite huge information set and if absolutely nothing else, programs Facebook’s growing discomforts “after a long tech-press honeymoon,” he states. “Taken another way, they’re a sign of an even rockier road for Facebook.”
The report comes as Facebook is involved in the Cambridge Analytica scandal including citizen information, the 2016 election andBrexit The New York Times and The Guardian’s Observer paper last month reported a political consultancy had incorrectly accessed the individual information of about 87 million Facebook users. The consultancy, Cambridge Analytica, was associated with the Donald Trump governmental project, which raised concerns about whether the social media had actually been utilized to control citizens. Worse, Facebook had actually understood about the information leakage 3 years ago however had not troubled to inform anybody.
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