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Re:Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along with Stock Price by philwelch on Thursday November 15, 2018 @02:39AM (#18457567)
In a counterfactual scenario where the Facebook news feed sorting criteria never changed from "most recent" to whatever it is now, do you think anybody would actually feel differently about the issue?
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Re:Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along with Stock Price by wu-ikkyu on Thursday November 15, 2018 @09:59AM (#18459687)
Of course.

Sorting by most recent, you can only blame your friends for promoting extremism -- FB remains neutral.

But when FB promotes extremist/click bait content in your feed in order to maximize engagement and profit, they're obviously to blame for that.

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