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Coronavirus: Facebook is becoming an unreliable source of traffic

As content moderators are sent home, AI tools are taking over their content policing job - and getting it wrong.

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Engaged Reading Digest: the unexpected face of polarisation

The assumptions many people make about social media, news consumption and polarisation may not be accurate. Prepare for a surprise…

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How to fix your Twitter timeline

Here's one quick hack to make your timeline better (even if it might offend a few people…)

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MailOnline takes brutal hit from Google algorithm update

A MailOnline SEO has admitted to a big traffic hit from a Google change.

Domain hopping to beat the Facebook algorithm

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Domain hopping to beat the Facebook algorithm

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

The LittleThings lesson publishers should be learning

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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

Facebook asks publishers: are you local?

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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

Facebook's not the filter bubble, we are

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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

Understanding Facebook's quasi-journalistic trending algorithm

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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

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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

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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

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Twitter brings the algorithm to all

Twitter has gone all in on that algorithm You’re now getting a Twitter timeline with added algorithmic sorting by default: The algorithm now appears to be enabled by default

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Google algorithm update hits publishers

Publishers feel the pain in new Google update A new update to the Google search algorithm seems to have hit some publishers, including TheAtlantic.com, GQ.com, Newyorker.com, Economist.com and Time.com: Commenting on the results, Marcus Tober, Searchmetrics CTO, said: “It

Tinder is judging you - with an algorithm

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Tinder is judging you - with an algorithm

Tinder rates the desirability of its users with an algorithm Tinder is judging you: You might not realize it, but anyone who’s used the popular dating app is assigned