This repository contains code to reproduce the findings featured in our story: "One Year After the Capitol Riot, Americans Still See Two Very Different Facebooks" from our series Citizen Browser.
Our methodology is described in "How We Built a Facebook Inspector."
data/biden.csv
This CSV file contains the unique links shown to Citizen Browser panelists who reported voting for Joseph Biden in the 2020 U.S. general election, along with a count of the number of panelists who were shown the link.
data/trump.csv
This CSV file contains the unique links shown to Citizen Browser panelists who reported voting for Donald Trump in the 2020 U.S. general election, along with a count of the number of panelists who were shown the link.
Our query requested data observed between Dec. 30, 2021, and Jan. 5, 2022.
We filtered the data to only include observations from Citizen Browser panelists who reported voting for Joseph Biden or Donald Trump in the 2020 U.S. general election.
We performed a keyword search for the following terms:
"capitol", "jan. 6", "january 6"
We looked for these terms in Facebook posts, link URLs, and the poster's account name and page address.
We excluded any posts flagged as sponsored, any posts that were clearly advertisements, and any links that were not associated with the activity surrounding the riot.
We excluded any posts made by Facebook itself.
We excluded links from any domain that had only one link served in our dataset.