Message from a Facebook friend:
FB is playing with your numbers of shares, probably to demoralize us conservatives who have lots of friends. For example, I have shared all of your Ammoland articles in the last several months, most of the time to two places, my timeline and elsewhere. They are still posted, yet when I look at your shares in your timeline, you only have a few shares, and my shares are some of the ones that do not show. DOJ Backs ATF... and Stigmatizing Gun Owners, were shared by me but they do not reflect in your shares on your page! Our articles, especially yours, are being shared by lots of people but you cannot see them!
Thanks for the feedback on this-- it does not surprise me-- Google changed their algorithm so my articles that used to appear under their "News" tab don't start showing up until the second or third page.
A regular Google search on my name in quotation marks, which is what I use to see how the work is spreading, used to yield >100K returns. The "News" tab used to return @ 20K. Currently, I'm just over 19K in the general search and 1K in "News."
It also shows under my AmmoLand articles, which used to routinely reflect thousands of "shares," but of late generally don't exceed the low hundreds.
Despite that, as always, there is only one thing I ask of the regulars here, whether you do it using "social media" or some other way, like forums and emails.
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When searching using goog they almost never have any right thinking or conservative listings on the first few pages. It is at the point where I'll skip those and go to page 3 or 4 or more to get what I want to find. At some point it will be pointless to search goog for anything except the establishment narrative! And for that we don't need a search at all, it's in our face 24/7/52.
This is like the "gear down and locked indicator" that doesn't light.
Those numbers are supposed to accurately tell you if your message is getting widely spread or not.
If your message is not getting out that's one problem.
If your message is getting out but not being measured accurately, that's another problem.
If, on the other hand, your message is getting out but Facebook et. al. are dinking with your numbers to make you look less influential for political purposes, that's another problem.
And as is often the case, the fix probably depends on first identifying what's going on.
But the well established fact that you're on an openly hostile platform both points in a likely direction and leads one to believe they're not going to co-operate on a fix.
The fact that Facebook, Twitter, and so forth operate as de facto monopolies where such supposedly cannot exist makes the most obvious solution, moving to a less hostile platform, a near impossibility.
And they know it.
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