On Tuesday morning, Facebook experienced some technical difficulties, throwing the internet into temporary chaos. In the midst of the turmoil engendered by the snafu, it was noted on Twitter that the two top stories on Facebook were both from Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro, and most of the other top stories emanated from conservative sources. That triggered statistics guru Nate Silver, who voted for Barack Obama, to issue a tweet with seeming disappointment that Shapiro’s stories and those from other conservatives were dominating Facebook, paving the way for Shapiro to point out that Silver’s tweet seemed pretty darn partisan.
First there was the tweet acknowledging Shapiro’s stories were numbers one and two:
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