Meta confirms a now-fixed Facebook bug led to a “massive ranking failure” that increased views of harmful content up to 30% over the past six months
A group of Facebook engineers identified a “massive ranking failure” that exposed as much as half of all News Feed views to potential …
Internal documents shed light on Facebook's “holdout” experiments, where it withholds certain protections from a subset of users to see how they will react
on purpose https://www.protocol.com/... Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky : This is what Frances Haugen was talking about when she described Facebook's “integrity holdouts” to Congress: “These are peopl...
Docs: Facebook tested turning off News Feed ranking for 0.05% of users in Feb. 2018 and found engagement dropped, Groups content rose, and ad views increased
Docs: Facebook tested turning off News Feed ranking for 0.05% of users in Feb. 2018 and found engagement dropped, Groups content rose, and ad views increased
New leaked Facebook documents show what happened when Facebook tried to remove feed ranking. It didn't go well.
Facebook documents show its News Feed algorithm treated emoji reactions as 5x more valuable than Likes starting in 2017, amplifying controversial content
Five years ago, Facebook gave its users five new ways to react to a post in their news feed beyond the iconic “like” thumbs-up: “love,” “haha,” “wow,” “sad” and “angry.”
Facebook details the types of posts that get demoted in News Feed, such as clickbait and spam, but stops short of saying exactly how a demotion works
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Facebook details the types of posts that get demoted in News Feed, such as clickbait and spam, but stops short of saying exactly how a demotion works
A high-level look at what gets suppressed by Facebook's algorithm — The way that Facebook controls its News Feed is often controversial and largely opaque to the outside world. Source: About Faceboo...
Analysis: Facebook appears to be adding code to interfere with automated data collection of News Feed posts by researchers, such as NYU's Ad Observatory
The tweak, which targets the code in accessibility features for visually impaired users, drew ire from researchers and those who monitor the platform Tweets: @themarkup , @joeosborne , @jared_w_smith ...
Facebook says it accidentally removed thousands of posts around the Jan. 6 riots from CrowdTangle, blaming a now-fixed error that has existed since at least May
The social media company said it was a technical error, and has been fixed, but tens of thousands of posts are still missing. Tweets: @markscott82 , @natematias , @markscott82 , @jason_kint , @profcar...
Former Facebook employees describe tests of News Feed algorithm changes and their impact on left- and right-leaning news sites, with tweaks to favor the right
even if that change would make the News Feed better.” This report is absolutely damning, with @facebook playing politics through the pushing of certain outlets over others to placate the party in powe...