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Facebook News Feed Algorithm Amplified Radicalising Content

Internal Facebook research, later revealed by whistleblower Frances Haugen, showed that Facebook's News Feed algorithm was recommending increasingly extreme content to users who engaged with politically charged material — creating a 'rabbit hole' effect. Facebook's own researchers proposed fixes; e…

Confidence
80%
Sources
1
Entities
1
Detected
1 Jan 2018

Event summary

Internal Facebook research, later revealed by whistleblower Frances Haugen, showed that Facebook's News Feed algorithm was recommending increasingly extreme content to users who engaged with politically charged material — creating a 'rabbit hole' effect. Facebook's own researchers proposed fixes; e…

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