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To Foster Competition In Social Media, Invest In Open Source Trust And Safety Tools 

2 years 6 months ago
Over the last decade, a small handful of large platforms have become de facto arbiters of how people communicate and share information with one another. As concerns about that concentrated power and those platforms’ decisions have piled up, so too have calls for greater competition and choice in social media and other services for communication […]
Mike Masnick

Why does Facebook want you to be on their algorithmic feed?

2 years 6 months ago
Social networks mostly have two different kinds of feeds: one that's a simple reverse chronological listing of posts from people you follow, and another that's controlled by an algorithm. On Twitter, users are forever complaining that the platform switches them to the algorithm without asking, and I imagine Facebook is the same. But why? A ...continue reading "Why does Facebook want you to be on their algorithmic feed?"
Kevin Drum