Oopsies: Facebook Boosted Bad Posts for Six Months Because of a News Feed Bug - Gizmodo

Meta’s News Feed boosted the visibility of misinformation, nudity, violence, and Russian state media by 30 percent for six months.

A massive ranking failure in the Facebook News Feed promoted content it pegged as bad for the past six months. The flaw in the News Feeds ranking algorithm elevated misinformation, violence, and the … [+1940 chars]

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