> Facebook changed their algorithm several years ago (2014?) to prioritize paid content over organic comments. That's a lie. Instead, "Facebook realized that

> Facebook changed their algorithm several years ago (2014?) to prioritize paid content over organic comments. That's a lie. Instead, "Facebook realized that users were growing wary of misleading teaser headlines, and the company recalibrated its algorithm in 2014 and 2015 to downgrade clickbait and focus on new metrics, such as the amount of time a user spent reading a story or watching a video, and incorporating surveys on what content users found most valuable" For companies that were depending on the organic reach of their clickbaity or low quality posts for their advertising, this had the effect of forcing them to pay to get that same reach. But it wasn't in any way that facebook was prioritizing paid over organic content.