WSJ, (Jeff Horwitz andDeepa Seetharaman) Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive
A Facebook Inc. team had a blunt message for senior executives. The company’s algorithms weren’t bringing people together. They were driving people apart. “Our algorithms exploit the human brain’s attraction to divisiveness,” read a slide from a 2018 presentation. “If left unchecked,” it warned, Facebook would feed users “more and more divisive content in an effort to gain user attention & increase time on the platform.”…Read More
NYT, (Kate Conger and Davey Alba) Twitter Refutes Inaccuracies in Trump’s Tweets About Mail-In Voting
OAKLAND, Calif. — Twitter added information to refute the inaccuracies in President Trump’s tweets for the first time on Tuesday, after years of pressure over its inaction on his false and threatening posts. The social media company added links late Tuesday to two of Mr. Trump’s tweets in which he had posted about mail-in ballots and falsely claimed that they would cause the November presidential election to be “rigged.”…Read More
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