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Re:Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, rep... by mgraczyk on Saturday December 23, 2023 @10:51PM (#38750939)
We ran lots of experiments, including asking people survey questions, monitoring usage, asking people offline to try both, etc

You're wrong about the design of algorithmic feeds. I worked on them, that's not how we designed them.

Re:Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, rep... by zarzavat on Sunday December 24, 2023 @02:28PM (#38755993)
How about giving the people the option and letting them decide for themselves.

Also, 20% of people is hundreds of millions of people.

Re:Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, rep... by mgraczyk on Sunday December 24, 2023 @02:36PM (#38756076)
People have the option, you can choose to use a chronological feed on Facebook and Meta
Re:Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, rep... by preciousoo on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @10:04PM (#38778644)
Facebook engr is famous for popularizing the phrase “one in a million happens every millisecond” so this 20% hand wringing is funny to me