Fareed Zakaria ✓

@FareedZakaria · New York, NY · joined 22 May 2009

WaPo columnist. Host of CNN's GPS, Sundays @ 10am & 1pm ET in the US. Order my latest book, Age of Revolutions, via the link below

1 460 160Followers

517Following

13 410Posts total

316.8KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views603this account16 434median for 1M–10M

Reach, %0.04%this account0.71%median for 1M–10M

Engagement, %0.80%this account1.60%median for 1M–10M

Metric	This account	Median for 1M–10M	Ratio
Median views per post	603	16 434	0.04×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.04%	0.71%	0.06×
Engagement rate	0.80%	1.60%	0.50×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

128.3K28 Jun

603

471

515

49.3K23 Aug

292

155

15424 Aug

45.3K29 Aug

45.3K30 Aug

46.3K2 Sep

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.84%28 Jun

1.66%

2.97%

1.75%

0.80%23 Aug

0.68%

0.65%

1.30%24 Aug

0.22%29 Aug

0.33%30 Aug

0.77%2 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 1.60%.

What the audience does

Likes55.7%1 496 in total

Reposts15.2%409 in total

Replies6.1%165 in total

Quotes1.8%47 in total

Bookmarks21.1%567 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

The imperial presidency. Closing thoughts from my most recent documentary: https://t.co/fKEE7O5n1R 46.3K views · 285 likes · 59 reposts · 12 replies 02 Sep 2026 Today on @CNN, at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET: How did the US president get so powerful? While GPS takes a late-summer break, CNN will air my most recent special report, “The Imperial Presidency.” In it, I tell the story of how presidential power has expanded over decades—and share my 45.3K views · 104 likes · 21 reposts · 22 replies 30 Aug 2026 On @CNN, Sunday at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET: Has the American president become more like a king? While GPS takes a late-summer break, CNN will air my most recent special report, “The Imperial Presidency” Pres. Trump has pushed executive power to a new extreme, but US presidents 45.3K views · 78 likes · 6 reposts · 12 replies 29 Aug 2026 @FareedZakaria Well ya know: if super-intelligent AI will liekely lead to human extinction, and if data centers are necessary to create super-intelligent AI, it shouldn't be too hard to see why so many of us are against them. It's kind of like parrying a knife attack. 154 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 24 Aug 2026 @FareedZakaria “If there's one thing most Democrats and Republicans agree on, it's how much they hate data centers.” This is how China wins. In fact, they probably already have. 155 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 23 Aug 2026 @FareedZakaria Not the top Republican. https://t.co/AnUfzIpiOe 292 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 23 Aug 2026 If there's one thing most Democrats and Republicans agree on, it's how much they hate data centers. What's behind the vitriol against the infrastructure powering the AI revolution? I explored: https://t.co/VEPb9mHhl9 49.3K views · 304 likes · 69 reposts · 17 replies 23 Aug 2026 @FareedZakaria Dems are the party of open anti-American socialism and and communism. They abandoned liberalism and enlightenment values over 10 years ago. Academia has been captured by Marxists. 515 views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 28 Jun 2026 @FareedZakaria Thanks but we’ll keep socialism. If the socialists didn’t threaten the power liberalism got drunk on and felt entitled to, you’d all continue on this destructive path selling out your constituents to the highest bidder on the way to fascism with no remorse. The peo 471 views · 12 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 28 Jun 2026 @FareedZakaria Great job Fareed. I’m usually your biggest critic in this space but I came today to praise you. Your “take” this morning was brilliant - pointing out all the failures of liberalism. Finally you are representing ALL of America. Kudos! And unions are at the root of t 603 views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 28 Jun 2026 From the UK to New York City, a certain kind of liberalism is losing energy, confidence and connection to the people it claims to represent. The way forward for liberalism is not to abandon it. It is to recover its radical spirit. My take: https://t.co/vncBq8w0qX 128.3K views · 693 likes · 253 reposts · 97 replies 28 Jun 2026