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@polotek ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
Welp. Here it is. Facebook is *literally* fomenting hate and anger. Intentionally building algorithms that take advantage of negative emotions because it produced more "engagement".
Many of us have been saying this for a long time. But some of y'all needed the smoking gun.
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@WillOremus ("Will Oremus") wrote:
Facebook secretly weighted reaction emojis, including "angry," as 5x the value of "likes"--over the integrity team's warnings.
We wrote about the obscure, often arbitrary, human decisions that shape Facebook's algorithm and how we all interact online: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/26/facebook-angry-emoji-algorithm/