Top 5 Facebook posts about Russell Brand are conspiracy theories
The top 5 FB posts (ranked by total interactions) relating to Russell Brand in the past month suggest he is being targeted for his anti-establishment views
This is disturbing. The top 5 FB posts (ranked by total interactions) relating to Russell Brand in the past month are conspiracy theories. They all state or suggest the allegations have come out due to his 'anti-establishment' views.
A search on Crowd Tangle - a platform that enables people to perform Instagram and FB analytics - reveals that posts from a selection of left and right political movements, journalists, meme pages or commentators, including the People's Party, Candace Owens, Matt Walsh are the most interacted with.
While not all are denying that the allegations are credible - such as Candace Owens, they all believe that Brand is being attacked due to his anti-establishment views, especially when it comes to his critique of Big Pharma during Covid19 (hardly anti-establishment, more just anti-vaxxer).
Yet more disturbing insights on how the FB algorithm seems to be fine with conspiracy theories and disinformation…