Rachel Maddow Audience Graph • Social Signal

Rachel Maddow's top 10 neighbors form a tight, undifferentiated cluster — scores run from 0.99 down to 0.98 with no single dominant pull and no meaningful gap between them. The composition is what defines the shape: journalists, politicians, and news publishers, with almost no crossover into entertainment or other domains.

Four of the ten neighbors share Maddow's own subcategory as Journalists: Chris Hayes (0.99), Anderson Cooper (0.98), Yamiche Alcindor (0.98), and Kyle Griffin (0.98). Politicians account for two slots — Nancy Pelosi (0.98) and Bill Maher is the exception here, classified as a TV Personality (0.98). The remaining neighbors are Chelsea Clinton (Professionals, 0.98), Daily Kos (Websites, 0.98), HuffPost (News Publishers, 0.98), and Michael Moore (Directors, 0.98). The spread across subcategories — Journalists, Politicians, TV Personalities, News Publishers, Websites, Professionals, Directors — is notable, but every entry sits within the same narrow political-media ecosystem.

What the flat shape reveals is that Maddow's audience is not uniquely shaped by any single peer or outlet; it is defined by a broad, consistent orientation toward left-leaning political journalism and commentary, with no structural outlier pulling in a different direction.

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https://graphs.socialsignal.ai/similar/maddow

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https://graphs.socialsignal.ai/v1/attention/similar/maddow

Rachel Maddow

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