01/23/2018

Facebook's Discouraging News Feed News

How to learn from leaning too heavily on social networks

The sky is falling, the sky is falling! Or, is it?

Certainly a lot of people have had negative reactions in the two weeks or so since we learned that Facebook was taking its black-box algorithm and pushing it away from traditional pages, particularly in the case of news content that has not been actively promoted. (In other words, if you’re not doing pay-to-play, you may be sitting on the sidelines.)

Facebook’s news team further shook things up by revealing that it would lean on users to decide upon the pages they wanted at the top of their feeds, if any. This would help the company decide whether a source is trustworthy. That, in turn, led numerous news outlets to publish articles on their websites telling users how they could do just that.

Please click here to read the complete article from Associations Now.