in a 2017 feature on partisan news, buzzfeed news analyzed weekly facebook engagements "since the beginning of 2015 and found that occupy democrats on the left and fox news on the right are the top pages in each political category." the article added that the pages "consistently generate more total engagement than the pages of major media outlets." the organization received wide attention during the 2016 presidential primaries of the democratic party, and was credited for having helped build support for bernie sanders' candidacy.