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This propaganda has no business on HN Aside from visiting HN I also see the stories percolate up my Facebook feed via following https://www.facebook.com/hnbot/
by endorphone 9y ago
This propaganda has no business on HN
Aside from visiting HN I also see the stories percolate up my Facebook feed via following https://www.facebook.com/hnbot/ https://www.facebook.com/hnbot/, and this story made the cut.
Indeed, a lot of terrible stories, often flagged off the front page, end up being posted by that bot. Given that only a small, small percentage of HN stories get posted to their Facebook feed it is mystifying, and certainly isn't the best of the best. Asking generally to any who know: Is it only if a story has a Facebook-ready sized image?
- grzm 9y agoIs that Facebook account affiliated with Y Combinator and Hacker News?
- endorphone 9y agoNo idea, and it isn't verified. But it does use the official icon, and has some 130,000 followers so it is fairly mainstream.
- grzm 9y agoWell, there's two things that contribute to what's seen from that bot: what the bot is actually doing, and what Facebook's algorithms end up displaying in your feed, neither of which we have much insight into :(