Wednesday 27 October 2021

Facebook actually made more money when they tried getting rid of the News Feed algorithm.

There's a lot of Facebook news out there right now, but I found this particularly fascinating. As revealed in the recent disclosures made by Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company did, in fact, experiment with getting rid of their recommendation algorithms — as recently as 2018. — Read the rest