Two Facebook tools suppressed traffic of conservative sites: Report
Posted on AllSides October 25th, 2021
From The Right
One tool was abandoned, WSJ report on internal debates says.
Another one, known as “Informed Engagement,” reduced the reach of posts that were more likely to be shared if even if the sharer hadn’t read the articles, The Journal reported, elevating the content of mainstream outlets. A 2019 company analysis found its impact fell heavily on sites considered to be conservative.
“We could face significant backlash for having ‘experimented’ with distribution at the expense of conservative publishers,” one of the researchers wrote in an internal memo reviewed by The Journal....
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