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> it's news feed algorithm to promote one candidate ... would be its prerogative under the First Amendment As long such practices are declared. People tend t
by nashashmi 11y ago
> it's news feed algorithm to promote one candidate ... would be its prerogative under the First Amendment
As long such practices are declared.
People tend to look at "what's trending" in an effort to optimize/manipulate their content so that users would "trend" on it. The fact that FB was artificially eliminating stories gave false results to observers.
Another way of looking at this is if Nielson were to lower the rankings of shows it disagrees with and affecting the duration of those shows.
- bobwaycott 11y agoEqually important, Facebook, through its contractor curators, was artificially adding stories, giving additional false results to observers.
- hyperpape 11y agoNielsen makes specific claims about the meaning of its data to people who pay for that data, so it would be fraud for them to undermine those claims by manipulating the data. I doubt Facebook does anything similar.
- Karunamon 11y agoWhat about to the advertisers? If I were a well-funded news outlet with a conservative bias, and I spent money on Facebook, I'd be evaluating my legal options right about now...