Is Facebook Auto-Injecting Content When You Get Invited?

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Facebook knows that the groups are a valuable conduit for people to connect on facebook. Sometimes people get invited to groups and they either don't notice the invitation, or maybe they don't really understand that they have to accept it. The idea is that instead of waiting for someone to accept a group, that you might inject content from that group into their feed for a period of time. This becomes problematic when people getting invited to really large groups. If you have an algarithm y engagement based ranking that priotizes devisive, polarizing, hateful content. That content ends up am you known there's 500 posts a day fromhe going to that group,. You might end in a situation

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