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Facebook Changes Feed To Promote Posts That Aren't Fake, Sensational, Or Spam (techcrunch.com)
TechCrunch is reporting that Facebook is prioritizing "authentic" content in News Feed with a ranking algorithm change that detects and promotes content "that people consider genuine, and not misleading, sensational, or spammy." The algorithm will also boost stories that are going viral in real-time. From the report: To build the update, Facebook categorized Pages that frequently share inauthentic posts like fake news and clickbaity headlines, or get their posts hidden often. It then used these posts to train an algorithm that detects similar content as its shared in the News Feed. Facebook will now give extra feed visibility to posts that don't show signs of similarity to inauthentic content. Meanwhile, Facebook wants to more quickly surface big stories going viral either because the topic is being posted about by lots of people, or a Page post about the topic is seeing tons of engagement. Facebook will then take that as a signal that you might temporarily care more about the topic, and therefore show it in your News Feed while it's still hot. Facebook says it doesn't anticipate significant changes to most Pages' News Feed distribution, but some might see a small increase or decrease in referral traffic or outbound clicks depending on if they share authentic, timely content vs inauthentic and outdated stories.
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Damn. There must be something wrong with my code...
Breitbart articles trigger a warning siren and a mechanical hand pops out of the computer to smack the poster with a rolled up newspaper.
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!
And you won't guess what happened next!
Didn't you get the memo? We're so democratic now that reality has to bend to the wishes of the majority.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
e.g. "Cardassians ATTACKED! (1k views)" - there are ALWAYS 1k+ talking about the Cardassians being attacked, so the entire thing is a GIMMICK.
I kind of lost track of what the Cardassians were up to after all that Dominon shit they got mixed up in. Have they still got beef with the Federation?
Incidentally, you think it's more likely that you didn't 'notice' an algo change. But hey, maybe you did, maybe you can just sniff the bits.
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This is where you start calling me names: Racist, bigot, homophobe... or the generic "Hater". That always works!
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.