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Breaking the Black Box: What Facebook Knows About You
- mattwest 10y agoThis concerns me because predicting people's tastes and spoon feeding them the content they crave typically reinforces their views; especially topics related to politics or personal values. Confirmation bias is running amok on sites like Facebook where, sadly, a lot of folks get their "news". Based on personal observation, I don't think the majority of users are even aware of the optimization algorithms.
- grzm 10y ago"Facebook also buys data about its users’ mortgages, car ownership and shopping habits from some of the biggest commercial data brokers." Wow. Makes sense, but I hadn't really considered them doing this in addition to what they get from just observing user behavior and content analysis. Propublica is also providing a Chrome extension (link on the article) that allows you to see (some of?) the data Facebook has.