Craig Silverman on a new technique some publishers are using to beat Facebook algorithm changes: “Publishers have found that their domains are often penalized by Facebook’s algorithm over policy changes that they don’t announce publicly. As a result…
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A collection of 18 posts
The LittleThings lesson publishers should be learning
The first major casualty of the Facebook algorithm change was announced last week: LittleThings was closing up, putting 100 people out of work. And, inevitably, they were a Facebook traffic-dependent publisher. Lucia Moses has written a great profile of LittleThings…
Facebook asks publishers: are you local?
Ooops. He Zucked it again. For three weeks running now, Zuckerberg’s big blue monster is messing around with the Facebook and its relationship with news. This is an actual photo of audience engagement people reading the latest missive from…
Facebook's not the filter bubble, we are
Interesting – and quite important – experiment from The Guardian – exposing the right and left in the US to Facebook newsfeeds from the other side of politics: Tobias said that exposure to the other side made her realize how difficult it might…
Understanding Facebook's quasi-journalistic trending algorithm
Facebook fired the human journalists working on its trending section (see posts passim) and replaced them with algorithmic journalists. It went…uh…well: Over the weekend, the fully automated Facebook trending module pushed out a false story about Fox News…
Is Facebook's algorithm a bit… rubbish?
The sheer power of Facebook’s news feed is not a matter of debate – especially for publishers. But Om Malik makes a different challenge in this thoughtful piece for the New Yorker: However, every time Facebook’s news feed, introduced…
Watch: Nice newsfeed you've got there. Shame if something happened to it.
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Don't be a journalism algorithm
Gizmodo‘s Michael Nunez delved into the lives of Facebook’s contract journalists in a well-shared piece: Over time, the work became increasingly demanding, and Facebook’s trending news team started to look more and more like the worst stereotypes…