Facebook: please stop with this
Jay Rosen,
PressThink,
Apr 22, 2015
This post is a criticism of Facebook's assertion that it does not rank news results. They say: "It's not that we control NewsFeed, you control NewsFeed by what you tell us that you're interested in." But of course there is an algorithm that constantly elevates Huffington Post results and buries the posts from people I actually know (and believe me, I do not choose this). "Facebook has to start recognizing that our questions are real— not error messages. We are not suggesting that it "edits" NewsFeed in the same way that a newspaper editor once edited the front page. It's a very different way. That's why we're asking about it! ... we want to know: what are you optimizing for, along with user interest?" Fair questions, and anyone who writes algorithms will have to have answers.
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