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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
This isn't entirely true. Facebook's algorithms try to drive engagement, and will make inferences about what you want to see based on what other people want to see. If most of the world likes political news that confirms their priors and/or enrages them, you are going to get shown stuff that confirms your priors and/or enrages you. To put it differently, no one makes you shop at Wal-Mart. |
Good grief.
I'm talking about the quality of the sources. I don't give a shit about them reinforcing my world view. I read a ton of news sources on my own. But I appreciate when a friend posts an article I wouldn't see otherwise and I only click on articles from reputable sources. I guarantee I get shit on my feed I definitely disagree with and wouldn't have come across without Facebook. And I'll read it, especially if it comes from someone I respect.
If there are pieces from reputable sources that I'm missing because Facebook has decided I wouldn't click on them for whatever reason, then am I in a worse position than I would be otherwise given that what I read independent of Facebook is what I read whether the app exists or not?
TM
