https://www.facebook.com/AngryDad-1500022046943639/
Look for the recent "AngryDad rant on gay marriage!!!!" post.
This is a viral trending post in Australia regarding the "same-sex marriage survey" political farce we are suffering through. When I requested the "Top Comments" sort order of 9,906 comments I was served:
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#1 "How the fuck have I never seen you before angry dad? I feel like I've just been enlightened!!" (1 Like, 4 Replies)
#2 "Tara Blyde who do you think this reminds me of hahahah" (1 Like, 4 Replies)
#3 "Haha Sam Schmidt look at the guy binging on chips in the back round" (0 Likes, 4 Replies)
#4 "AngryDad you are a legend well said 100% agree waste of money which could be injected into aged care, the sick, homeless, disabilities etc" (24 Likes, 2 Replies)
#5 "Travis Maiorana sounds like you when you talk about tax :)" (3 Likes, 4 Replies)
... 250ish ...
#? " I love Angry Dad! Good on him!! Mitch Petropoulos Kieran Kartun" (4 Likes, 5 Replies)
... 1000ish ...
#? "Someone count how many times he says 122million x" (3,609 Likes, Undisclosed number of Replies)
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Clearly "Top Comments" means something to facebook that is seriously divergent from the generally accepted meaning of the term "Top Comments".
Facebook needs to provide a copy of their version control system (VCS) to a senate select committee to answer the question: "Does facebook have the technical capability to manipulate the posts or other behaviors, including "sort orders" on their platform"
Should they find its possible, a second data dump of the actual facebook database to the select committee would investigate has this capability ever been deployed to manipulate "emergent" discourse.
Its that serious. Nationalize facebook if they have been surreptitiously manipulating the de facto "planetary wide" discourse platform.