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> Facebook prioritizes engagement as their top metric. Slight nitpick, but the top metric is money. If Engagement didn't lead to the most dollars it would not
by Lammy 6y ago
> Facebook prioritizes engagement as their top metric.
Slight nitpick, but the top metric is money. If Engagement didn't lead to the most dollars it would not be prioritized. I think this is important to separate because "Engagement → (Ad Impressions + Societal Collapse)" feels so much more fixable to me than just "Engagement → Societal Collapse".
- CogentHedgehog 6y agoThis is true. Engagement -> Ad Views -> $$$ If they down-weighted negative engagement they could easily solve this though. There are pretty trivial content analysis tools that spit out a hostility score for a corpus of text. Facebook just doesn't care to do this.