Monday, March 21, 2011

PolitiFact's "Matrix"

I've written before about suspicions that PolitiFact isn't playing it straight with comments on its FaceBook page.

Screen clip from Monday, March 21, 2011, this IP address using my normal personal FaceBook account:


Screen clip from Monday, March 21, 2011, this IP address while logged off from FaceBook:

Note that Sene Sean's name has gone black (no hotlink) and the presence of hotlinks to the lower right.

And, finally, a screen clip from Monday, March 21, 2011, this IP address while logged on with an organizational account I started for PolitiFact Bias:



Note the presence of a post invisible from the other account even though it was posted on Friday.

This phenomenon is a fine breakthrough for Internet discussion.  Everyone can have the last word in their own little version of the Matrix.

Using the organizational account, I hope to pick up a few clues as to what causes posts to disappear depending on the account used to view the page.  So far I see no obvious way to selectively edit some posts by one person while leaving others available for viewing.  But there are a few things I can try that might shed some light on the matter.

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