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Part Two: Let's Look at the Facebook Papers

Behind the Bastards

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Facebook's News Feed Algorithm Recommendation

In april of 20 20, facebook employees came up with another recommendation. It was suggested by internal employees that the news feed algorithm d prioritize the posting of content based on the behavior of people's facebook friends. For one thing, if you hadn't seen someone like a post about somethingthat was maybe like, violent or aggressive or conspirator, like a flat earth post or oppost urging the execution of an elected leader, even if you saw it, you wouldn't comment on it or share it. But they found that, like, if i just saw that a friend had liked it, you were more likely to share it. And their early experiments found that fixing this would reduce the spread

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