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Home Front: Politix
Mission accomplished? Facebook joins Twitter in reverting to pre-election news feed algorithms that do not prioritize MSM
2020-12-18
[RT] Facebook has reversed its election-season policy of prioritizing mainstream media stories in News Feed after a similar move from Twitter. This is as Mark Zuckerberg
...the Peewee Herman clone who owns Facebook. He's got more money than Croesus and thinks he should be regulated by the government because it does such a nifty job with all the other stuff it regulates....
is sued for allegedly helping tip the vote in favor of Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids....
An algorithm tweak that saw Facebook users deluged with mainstream media stories following last month’s elections has been reversed, the social media behemoth told the New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

on Wednesday, insisting that the change — which significantly boosted traffic for establishment outlets like CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
, NPR, and the Times itself while suppressing alt-media and right-wing sites — was never meant to be permanent.

Boosting the importance of "news ecosystem quality," essentially a reputational score applied to news outlets, was "a temporary change we made to help limit the spread of inaccurate claims about the election," Facebook front man Joe Osborne told the outlet. He explained that the platform was still prioritizing so-called "authoritative and informative news" on "important global topics like elections, Covid-19 and climate change."
Posted by:Fred

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