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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decrease in referral traffic or outbound clicks depending on if they share authentic, timely content vs inauthentic and outdated stories.
Are probably not really that interested in whether the 'news' is real or not.
So it
promotes content "that people consider genuine
Isn't the real problem that people consider anything that matches their confirmation bias to be genuine?
I can point out similar instances with the other sources. I'm not totally against using these sources but I want a balance from the other sources on the other side of the political aisle.
You say things that offend me and I can deal with it. Can you?
I've had to report and ignore more than one idiot still on their soapbox about vaccinations causing autism.
5 minutes with Google will pull up that mercury was used as a preservative, had some correlation to autism, and hasn't been used since the Gov banned it in the 70's or 80's. And those research papers everyone pulls up? They all reference 1 paper, done in the 60's.
I can't wait for the braindead, unwashed masses to actually have a few braincells capable of independent thought. Since these same idiots believe everything they read on the internet (primarily Facebook), changes like this may actually help.
17 reasons why they should demote stories that begin with "17 reasons why they should demote stories that begin with "17 reasons why they should demote stories that begin with "17 reasons why they should demote stories that begin with "17 reasons why they should demote stories that begin with "17 reasons why they should demote stories that begin with..... ^c
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!
When i read that i thought the exact same thing. So some easily offended people dont like seeing posts about certain things and "hide" them, now they get used as examples of fake news? what if it says "Donald Trump Is the 45th President of the United States of America" and liberals dont like that fact so 1 million of them hide that post. Is it now considered fake news? even know its a 100% true statment? Because from the summary thats exactly how it sounds like its going to work.
I give this at most a week before something obviously fake gets promoted or the spammers figure out how to get around the algorithm and Facebook has to apologize again and looks completely inept.
And you won't guess what happened next!
Only idiots read anything facebook. Fake holy hillary stories obviously weren't fake enough.
Ads upon ads, the reason I gave up stupid facebook centuries ago.
Newsflash matey. We are fucking drowning in idiots. What they think matters, sorry to say.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
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.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
Jesus - I just paid a visit to CNN, and their front page "news" article about Trump nominating a Supreme Court justice was full of shit like this:
"It was a sweet moment of vindication for the Republican Party -- especially its social conservative and evangelical wings who had defied expectations that they would desert Trump over his three marriages and often vulgar tone.
Whatever he said, and whatever he did, conservatives clung on to the tiger's tail, convinced Trump would deliver them a Supreme Court pick they could get behind. Looking on were Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan, savoring their reward."
"But the President is also known to place great value in someone's appearance and might have concluded that Gorsuch, tall, fit with a square jaw and immaculately cropped gray hair looks the part of a Supreme Court Justice."
That's why I consider CNN to be as fake news-y as anyone else. I want to read fucking NEWS. I don't want interpretations of what the people might have been thinking, or derogatory assumptions, or portrayals of any sort. I just want news.
But.... All the media was against Trump. Where could you find FAKE news benefiting him if there were NONE telling anything good about him?
It doesn't make any sense.
Trump won, despite all Media trying to make him lose. Do yo mean that only news from cnn, fox, etc. are the real ones and everything else is fake?
Wake up and don't pretend people are stupid.
most news consumed by Trump voters were by way of facebook. Tomi Lahren posts garnered more views per episode than Bill O'Reilly. That's the tip of the iceberg though. Fake sensentional articles written by pro Russian sponsored trolls were shared at an ungodly rate. Think I'm wrong, ask a Trump voter if their timelines are now devoid of Hillary killed X person posts or Obama secret something posts. Same as how they were bombarded with these fake articles, progressive peoples timelines now look like an anti Trump site. You're right that traditional news sources were all against Trump. Traditional news sources are subject to higher standards, verifications and/or editing. Those same sources aren't going to turn pro Trump because hes president now. The shitshow we have been seeing for the past 12 days is what they wrote about all along and will continue to do so.
What they think matters
Only to them. But since it is easier to scream "Trump is banning immigrants!!!!!" than it is to say "Trump has suspended travel for 120 days from seven countries" all we get are the idiot posts because that is what people parrot.
Keep in mind, Obama banned immigrants just last month, and nobody cared.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
You make my case for me. I would suggest to you, that the ban from Cuba was essentially worse, because it wasn't telegraphed at all and was completely out of the blue. You cannot say the same thing about Trump, who telegraphed it from the primaries through the general election.
I do know the details, but my outlook values certain details over others. Of course, I am a racist nazi for thinking the brown/black skin people of Cuba deserve to be refugees more than the brown skin people of states that foster radical Islamic terrorists, all other things being equal. The fact that we actually CAN vet the brown / black skinned people from Cuba almost universally means we know who they are when they get here.
The sad thing is, I will be called a racist for pointing out that it has nothing to do with skin color.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.