How Facebook Allowed Mass Partisanship—Most Interesting Thing in Tech
How Facebook Allowed Mass Partisanship—Most Interesting Thing in Tech
What's New · SpokenLayer
May 26, 20204m 17s
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Show Notes
New reporting from the WSJ about an internal effort at the company to limit the ways the platform pushes people into filter bubbles and enables partisanship. And, unfortunately, details about how the platform mostly quashed the proposed changes. You can read the story here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-it-encourages-division-top-executives-nixed-solutions-11590507499
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