Facebook Manipulated the News You See to Appease Republicans, Insiders Say
▻https://www.motherjones.com/media/2020/10/facebook-mother-jones
Sources tell us the platform tweaked its code to help right-wing publishers and throttle sites like Mother Jones. Near the close of the first year of the Trump presidency, executives at Facebook were briefed on some major changes to its News Feed—the code that determines which of the zillions of posts on the platform any one of us is shown when we look at Facebook. The story the company has publicly told is that it was working to “bring people closer together” by showing us more posts from (...)
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