Do you think Facebook News feed is a trustworthy source of news? Well, you should think again. Due to a new algorithm that personalizes your News Feed it is nearly impossible to escape your own or your friends’ biases. Facebook picks information and delivers it to you if it matches your preferences and behavior. This is because the site tries to provide you only with … [Read more...]
New Facebook Algorithm Measures Time You Spend Looking at Posts
Social media giant Facebook has announced on Friday that it is going to introduce a new algorithm for deciding what will appear in its user’s news feed which is going to go past the traditional most liked, most shared and most commented structure into a slightly harder quantifiable measurement – the time a user spends reading a certain post. The reason for this apparently is … [Read more...]
