Facebook Is Sharing Data To Prove It’s Not A Political Hellhole

The company published a report on the most-viewed content on the site, which executives say “most accurately” represents what people see on Facebook. This is the first time Facebook is releasing this type of data, which includes the most-viewed domains, links, posts and pages from the second quarter of 2021. Facebook framed the report as an extension of its ongoing transparency efforts. But the information contained in it also serves another purpose: countering the idea that far-right pages and accounts dominate the site in the U.S.

Facebook said that this report is the first in a series and that it will continue reporting on most-viewed content quarterly in the future.