Zuckerberg Flipped Secret Switch Favoring Credible News Outlets on Facebook After the Election: NYT

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Now that the election is over. damn him!



Zuckerberg Flipped Secret Switch Favoring Credible News Outlets on Facebook After the Election: NYT

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Zuckerberg Flipped Secret Switch Favoring Credible News Outlets on Facebook After the Election: NYT

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MISINFORMATION SHUTOFF
Tori B. Powell

Published Nov. 24, 2020 8:56PM ET
Drew Angerer/Getty Images

In the aftermath of the 2020 election, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg approved a change to the social network’s News Feed ranking algorithm that favored more credible journalistic outlets, The New York Times reports. The drastic shift, intended to fight rampant election misinformation problems, resulted in skyrocketing visibility for mainstream publishers like CNN and NPR and a downturn in engagement for hyper-partisan pages like Breitbart and Occupy Democrats. Facebook reportedly evaluates news outlets on a clandestine metric titled “news ecosystem quality,” which ranks the authority and trustworthiness of their journalism, and the shift in the News Feed system weighted organizations with high N.E.Q. more heavily. Some employees pushed for the change to remain a permanent feature, but Facebook executive Guy Rosen told the Times that “there has never been a plan to make these permanent.”
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[PJMcK]

1. Facebook sucks

It's use as a "news" source is ridiculous.

Facebook is a symptom of the sickness of our society.

So are Republicans.

[underpants]

9. I never knew that button was "News feed"

Yes I said button. It’s Facebook - where people I went to high school with post pictures of themselves drinking on boats and stupid old people memes. I guess because I use Apple products maybe I miss some of the “ads” who knows. Still, it’s f’in Facebook.

[Johnny2X2X]

2. Zuckerberg is a truly evil person

Does nothing to stop multiple genocides when he could stop them cold because he wants more money. If Facebook was around in the 1930s, Zuckerberg would have made sure the Nazis killed many more Jews.

This was a good thing though, so it probably means he had little to do with it.

[uponit7771]

7. "Zuckerberg approved a change" its a good thing now but before what he did was disgusting knowing

... there were people wanting to kill law enforcement and do other terrorist shit communicating on his platform.

[uponit7771]

3. Must have been Epsteined or something close, I don't believe Zucker is a MAGA True Believer but

... he's sure acting like one.

There's no reason why this shouldn't be investigated till the end

[Johnny2X2X]

8. He's a sociopath

He’s the greediest human being maybe that’s ever existed. If he could increase his wealth 5%, he’d kill half the earth’s population. He’s the type of guy who gets a good chuckle when he finds out Facebook is being used to coordinate ethnic cleansing. He gets off on the tool he created being so powerful it can help murder thousands.

[TheBlackAdder]

4. Time to start sucking up to Biden, hoping FB will avoid scrutiny.

[uponit7771]

10. +1, my thoughts too ... lets start doing stuff that's positive toward Biden. FB was key at Russians

... funding TPC in 2016 in swing states, without the social media they wouldn't have a big of a platform.

[Thekaspervote]

5. F..kbook is no better than fux snooz

[Botany]

6. Fuck him he still owes us for 2016 and the way he knowingly let facebook become a 24/7 outlet ...

... for Russian disinformation and propaganda.

[uponit7771]

12. +1, especially in swing states were 3rd party candidates over performed 300% relative to previous

... years funded by Russian propoganda.

The shit that's openly in the Mueller report is gob smacking and how social media helped them out makes me think the guy was Epsteined.

[Botany]

13. "Without Facebook, we wouldn't have won."- Theresa Hong, Trump Campaign Official

Zuckman new all about Cambridge Analytica, cozy bear, the FSB, and the use of algorithms
to I.D. people on facebook then have them bathed in misinformation especially about Hillary
and her emails and server.

[uponit7771]

14. +1, when my nephew spoke against Hillary I knew something was wrong. He was a FB ...

... feign and repeated some of the dumbest crap from it.

[Botany]

16. I have an old friend from college ... engineer type ... who got sucked into that crap.

Putin/Facebook/Cambridge Analytica fed that beast and the Trump Campaign/Republican Party/Republican members of congress
/right media and so on were more than willing to repeat and sell that crap.

You can see it right now with the "Trump was cheated dumb fucks" because their new catch phrase is,
"MAIL IN BALLOTS" just like HRC's email server, Benghazi, WNDs in Iraq, John Kerry was not a hero
in Vietnam, Whitewater shit, and so on.

[LuvNewcastle]

11. Zuckerberg was one of those evil Black-eyed Children when he was a boy.

While it isn't true that all gingers don't have souls, he's one ginger who doesn't. They need to put him away somewhere, like they did with Batboy of Weekly World News fame.

[Takket]

15. Facebook openly supports disinformation and propaganda

And Democrats should treat it as such.

[Stallion]

17. So Now Facebook Users--Not Me--Will Have a Bunch of Links Behind Paywalls

[bullimiami]

18. is it not also possible that the change was really only one factor and the bots and troll effort

dropped drastically after the election allowing the credible sources to ascend the algorithms?

the misinformation effort is not random,
well some may be, but some is carefully crafted to exploit the system and constantly modified to keep it effective.


im just pointing out that effect and cause are not as simply linked.