The article shows a fundamental misunderstanding how Facebook filtering works. If Facebook didn't have any kind of filtering on page updates then they'd flood o

The article shows a fundamental misunderstanding how Facebook filtering works. If Facebook didn't have any kind of filtering on page updates then they'd flood out friend updates which are much more important. The likelihood that a particular fanpage update will get filtered out for an individual user is dependent on how the user has interacted with the fanpage in the past. If a user frequently clicks through/comments/etc on updates from a fanpage then updates from that fanpage are far less likely to get filtered out. The whole sponsored stories thing was introduced a long time after Facebook had started doing filtering. Saying that the filtering is a conspiracy to help Facebook make money may well be libelous.