Thu. 08/19 - The #1 Site on Facebook is a Green Bay Packers Alumni Company?
Aug 19, 2021•19 min
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Episode description
Facebook has released a report of their most widely viewed content, but the #1 most viewed link on the platform shows how the report isn’t exactly proving the point they’re trying to make. Plus, are realtors engineering weird listing photos so they’ll go viral? And it turns out we’ve been getting blue moons entirely wrong for at least forty years.
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Links:
- How an Obscure Green Bay Packers Site Became the Biggest Thing on Facebook (Wired)
- Everyone's fighting about a dating simulator again (Garbage Day)
- Facebook releases a report on the most-viewed content in News Feed (The Verge)
- Facebook reveals top posts but still won’t share key data about disinformation (Ars Technica)
- Knight in Zillow: A realtor explains what is going on in this bonkers real estate listing. (Slate)
- The August 2021 full moon is, somehow, a Blue Moon. Here's why. (Space.com)
- We'll have a Blue Moon this weekend (EarthSky)
- Kottke.Org
- Jackson Bird on Twitter
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