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The tea party and birtherism predate all of Facebook’s content ranking algorithms - so I would say you’ve proved the GP’s point.
by avalys 5y ago
The tea party and birtherism predate all of Facebook’s content ranking algorithms - so I would say you’ve proved the GP’s point.
- buitreVirtual 5y agoAll that garbage was circulating and being amplified in early Facebook and for many years later, even today, generating engagement and profit regardless of algorithms. They just made it worse over time. Why do you also dismiss the rest of the list?
- eropple 5y agoThey do not, however, predate opportunistic actors begging for shares of their content on the platform, and of the platform's users happily doing so. I know; my dad was one of them. There's a difference of kind to mass broadcast on a platform one incidentally scrolls (and thus receives incidental exposure from) versus, say, chain emails. The latter have a lot lower impact and require way more activation energy to push onward than a one-click Share.