Sunday, January 31, 2021

In August, internal research at Facebook showed that ~70% of the platform's most active civic Groups were considered too toxic to recommend to users (Jeff Horwitz/Wall Street Journal)

Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal:
In August, internal research at Facebook showed that ~70% of the platform's most active civic Groups were considered too toxic to recommend to users  —  The giant struggled to balance Mark Zuckerberg's free-expression mantra against findings that rabid partisanship had overrun a feature central to its future



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