How Facebook Allowed Mass Partisanship—Most Interesting Thing in Tech

How Facebook Allowed Mass Partisanship—Most Interesting Thing in Tech

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      1358
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      May 26, 2020
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1358 of 2526
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Non-fiction

New reporting from the WSJ about an internal effort at the company to limit the ways the platform pushes people into filter bubbles and enables partisanship. And, unfortunately, details about how the platform mostly quashed the proposed changes. You can read the story here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-it-encourages-division-top-executives-nixed-solutions-11590507499

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