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Re:Mark in the Middle by jrm4 on Thursday September 24, 2020 @03:16PM (#24582419)
This, rather incorrectly, presumes that the default mode of Facebook is "non-censorship," i.e. something resembling fairness in terms of what gets popular and what doesn't.

This is a huge farce, of course, it's all completely unfair pay to play and black-box algorithms.

Now, I could be wrong about this -- but it would be incumbent UPON THEM to prove that, by opening up and showing us how they do things. Barring that, I very much welcome insiders in Facebook applying pressure.

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Re:Mark in the Middle by wayne_skylar on Thursday September 24, 2020 @03:55PM (#24582869)
This is the way I see it. Ever since Facebook started "optimizing" the timeline order they have been showing you a distorted picture of the world. Honestly it would probably be enough to default everyone back to a world where nobody gets preferential treatment on your feed and everything is chronological.
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