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Re:Facebook's Desperate Smoke Screen by freehunter on Friday February 09, 2018 @05:24PM (#16344383)
That's a very different problem in a very different league of problems. Where do you click to see the stuff the New York Times decided not to show you? Or scenes a movie editor left on the cutting room floor? Or pages an author never sent to print? Or words I left untyped in this comment?

Content editors and curators have existed for a long time.

Re:Facebook's Desperate Smoke Screen by adrianN on Saturday February 10, 2018 @12:52AM (#16346101)
But they weren't automated and couldn't tailor the content for each user individually to maximize the time they spend looking at ads.