Ferguson On Facebook & Twitter: Ice Bucket Challenge Vs National Guard & Starkly Different Realities

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Ferguson On Facebook And Twitter: Ice Bucket Challenge Versus National Guard And Starkly Different Realities

By Christopher Zara
on August 18 2014 3:09 PM

The continuing unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, is quickly becoming a tale of two Internets.

For the last 72 hours, newswatchers have been glued to social media for updates on the latest developments in suburban St. Louis, where fierce protests over the shooting death of Mike Brown continued for the second weekend in a row, but what users saw on Twitter Inc. (NYSE:TWTR) was vastly different from what they found on Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB). In fact, while Twitter users could barely keep up with the Ferguson updates, many on Facebook saw very few at all.

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MORE: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/08/19/how-facebook-and-twitter-control-what-you-see-about-ferguson/

Really?

[GeorgeGist]

1. Facebook™ is not your friend.

Never has been.

[msongs]

2. most ppl use facebook socially not as any kind of news update nt

[jakeXT]

3. Maybe it was happy week over there

Facebook Manipulated User News Feeds To Create Emotional Responses

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2014/06/28/facebook-manipulated-user-news-feeds-to-create-emotional-contagion/