Key Points -This article discusses the frenquency of Facebook posts made by members of Congress. It is stated that legislators that lean very far left or very far right tend to share more news links on their Facebooks.Usually, about twice as much as moderates from either party.
Data Source The data was collected from a dataset of the official and unofficial Facebook accounts of members of Congress, and their respective Facebook posts.
From Data to Insight The research team manually verified the accounts of each member of Congress, and then used Facebook Graph API to collect their Facebook posts from 2016 to 2017.Then, they used a script to identify how many of these posts were news links, which helped them determine who was posting the most news links to Facebook.