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>To Facebook’s credit, they’ve chosen to be radically transparent about this.

Wait, they chose to be radically transparent AFTER they were denounced?

Kinda like Theranos, who's being really honest about the quality of their tests, AFTER they've been shown to be worthless?

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I actually don't have trouble believing that they had failed to carefully consider the (broader social) implications of what they were doing.

I think I find that more believable than attempting to build an elaborate system for manipulating user opinions.

If anything, I think they are biasing the feeds in ways that garner clicks, like discussed here:

https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/733397126026297344

I agree, I don't see this episode as a systemic, top-down, news manipulation initiative, but more as a deep lack of self-awareness and reflection on the network's impact on what people see. And that hasn't been addressed yet.

I agree. PR pivot at its finest.

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