U.S. Political Rants Are Most Viral Posts On Facebook

Every other second, a Facebook user reposts as a status update a viral rant about the U.S. government's budget stalemate. The rate of reposting has increased thirty-fold since last night.

With the U.S.’s tax filing deadline nearing, and an arguably embarrassing budget deal being struck between the White House and Congress, many Americans are, well, pissed. And they’ve been expressing their anger on Facebook, by reposting a status update that’s now going up at rate of one every two seconds. And these message posts are increasing in frequency:

Even late last night, when we first noticed the message spreading, the sarcastic but straightforward message was being reposted at a rate of about twice per minute.

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