IMPORTANT: Facebook is turning up and down the traffic dials to news and opinion sites based on internal partisan concerns, raised by lobbyists working for Joel Kaplan (of Kavanaugh fame).
Every single publisher and journalist should be alarmed. motherjones.com/media/2020/10/…
Every single publisher and journalist should be alarmed. motherjones.com/media/2020/10/…
This story reveals that: algorithmic changes were discussed with impacts to SPECIFIC publishers in mind.
Original goal, to dial down fighting on Facebook, chucked when it was found to hurt conservative sites. Algo reworked to punish progressive news orgs instead.
Original goal, to dial down fighting on Facebook, chucked when it was found to hurt conservative sites. Algo reworked to punish progressive news orgs instead.
We dug in on reporting on it because we were one of the publishers —SHOWN IN A SLIDE DECK TO FB EXECUTIVES—to be ultimately harmed.
But who else?
And who's next?
But who else?
And who's next?
If this is what they're willing to do to US publishers, what do you think they're willing to do to increase their reach in countries under an autocratic regime?
The impact of conservatives being given a boost by Facebook (and not dialed back even when they pub incendiary/conspiratorial junk) is a very real problem in our election. As @kevinroose has written about: nytimes.com/2020/08/27/tec…
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