User choice behind Facebook bias
Stuff.co.nz - Study finds social network's news feed formula does not insulate you from diverse opinions. You do.
View ArticleIs Facebook a political echo chamber? Social network says no
Fortune - A Facebook study rebuts criticism that it fills its news feed with posts about politics that users agree with.
View ArticleEveryone's not just reading 'The Daily Me,' Facebook study finds
Seattle Times - Almost 29 percent of the stories displayed by Facebook's News Feed present views that conflict with an individual's ideology.
View ArticleFacebook study rebuts the 'echo chamber' effect
Computerworld - On Facebook, you might see a fair number of news articles shared by friends supporting Republican presidential candidates as the race heats up. Even if you're a Democrat. The site's...
View ArticleCritics Blast Facebook Study About Effect of Algorithms on Content
PC Magazine - Who you friend, and what they share, has more of an effect on whether you see opposing viewpoints in your Facebook News Feed than Facebook's algorithms—if its latest research is...
View ArticleIs Facebook Keeping You In a Political Bubble?
Slashdot - sciencehabit writes: Does Facebook make it harder for people with different political views to get along? Political scientists have long wondered whether the social network's news feed...
View ArticleFacebook study disputes the 'echo chamber' effect
ITworld - On Facebook, you might see a fair number of news articles shared by friends supporting Republican presidential candidates as the race heats up. Even if you're a Democrat. The site's News Feed...
View ArticleFacebook Use Polarizing? Site Begs to Differ
New York Times - Almost 29 percent of the news stories displayed by Facebook's News Feed present views that conflict with the user's own ideology, the study found.
View ArticleFX News EDGE Service Launched by Leading Forex Educator Jarratt Davis
KOTV - A new live institutional news feed for retail traders called FX News EDGE has been launched by Jarratt Davis - one of the UK's most reputable forex traders and educators.
View ArticleDaily Report: Facebook Use Polarizing? Site Begs to Differ
New York Times - Almost 29 percent of the news stories displayed by Facebook's News Feed present views that conflict with the user's own ideology, the study found.
View ArticleThe Facebook 'It's Not Our Fault' Study
Wired - Selectivity and polarization are happening on Facebook, and the news feed curation algorithm acts to modestly accelerate that. The post The Facebook 'It's Not Our Fault' Study appeared first on...
View ArticleWhy Scientists Are Upset About The Facebook Filter Bubble Study
Fast Company - Facebook says users, not its algorithm, are responsible for the so-called filter bubble. But Facebook's own research says otherwise. Yesterday, the journal Science released a study by...
View ArticleFacebook conducted a study to see if people's news feeds showed them opposing...
Business Insider - Facebook data scientists published a study in Science magazine this week saying that the social network doesn't completely isolate its users from different political viewpoints ? but...
View ArticleAll the News That's Fit to Like
Slate - When Facebook entered the news business in 2006, it set out to cover its own users. Facebook had launched as a static collection of profiles, but now, every time a user uploaded a new photo or...
View ArticleThe political echo chamber on your Facebook news feed is not Facebook's...
Quartz - When nearly half of US internet users are getting their political news from Facebook, it rightfully raises many worries. Chief among them is that Facebook's powerful algorithm creates a...
View ArticleVonn hits Disneyland after breaking up with Tiger
Golf Channel - If Lindsey Vonn is having a tough time getting over her breakup with Tiger Woods, you wouldn't know it from a quick look at her Facebook news feed.
View ArticleFacebook taking on eBay, now showing all second-hand goods
The Next Web - Facebook is testing out a new option in news feed that shows a unified view of items on sale across user groups and adds the ability to search public groups. We reported?
View ArticleFive Ways Facebook Messenger Could Be A Game Changer For Retailers
Forbes - Thus far, "Facebook commerce" has flopped. Efforts by retailers, from Express to Urban Outfitters, to sell merchandise directly on the social network via virtual shops on the site, "news feed...
View ArticleFacebook's Extremes
Slate - Does Facebook filter our political discourse? Last week, the company released a study of user profiles that purported to show that the social network's News Feed algorithm doesn't limit our...
View ArticleFacebook Study Says Users Control What They See, But Critics Disagree
Huffington Post - In the end, the slant of the news you see may be the slant of the news you seek. Even if most Facebook users still don't know that their news feeds are filtered by an algorithm, they...
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