These kinds of headlines—"Here’s How Facebook’s Local News Algorithm Change Led To The Worst Riots Paris Has Seen In 50 Years"—and reporting largely unfounded and irresponsible. What about the evidence here is convincing?pic.twitter.com/3nQHqLVkAG
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I agree I learned some facts from the article. But it also repeatedly makes causal claims about the role of Facebook and, more surprisingly, this particular algorithm change that strike me as not close to supported by the reporting.
I agree that the causal certainty is overwritten/claimed. I also find the latest algo changes to emphasize local/groups potentially consequential for movements—probably not to whether some sort of reaction would happen but to how it would play out.
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