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I don't understand, how is missing your friend's post related to enabling repression?
by hrasyid 9y ago
I don't understand, how is missing your friend's post related to enabling repression?
- mkempe 9y agoIt's an example of manipulation. Facebook removed an important item from my "news feed."
- hrasyid 9y agoDid they arrange it so that you didn't see that post (why would they?), or did you just miss seeing it, or is it just ranked poorly by their algorithm? Seems like there's a lot of possible explanations, it doesn't seem obvious to me that it's Facebook's fault/
- yorwba 9y agoAn obituary is not going to get shared widely or get many clicks (unless it's a celebrity), so obviously it will be ranked poorly by Facebook's algorithm. But it is Facebook's choice to rank content based on click rates and virality, so in a way they did arrange it so that post would not be seen. "Our algorithm did it." does not absolve anyone of their responsibility in choosing to use that algorithm.
- mrighele 9y agoThe explanation is that that kind of post doesn't provide as much "engagement" (i.e. likes, shares and in the end ad revenue) as the kind of posts that makes facebook a worse place (click-bait kind of articles, "fake news", gif memes etc). Something like this happened to me too (though it was about a newborn baby). FB simply decided that some of my contacts are not worth showing up in my feed. Some other instead keep popping up, despite me clicking "Hide post - See fewer posts like this" like mad.
- icelancer 9y agoWhen one of the options is: "Show me the News Feed in chronological order, omitting nothing," [0] then Facebook will not be at fault. [0] I am aware of appending /?sk=h_chr to the URL. It does not work 100%.
- droopyEyelids 9y agoIf you do not believe there is a difference between: _A company controlling what you can say_ and _Missing what someone wrote_ then it will not be worthwhile for you to follow this subject.