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Decoding Facebook's News Feed Algorithm

  • Slate, Tuesday, January 5, 2016 11:42 AM
Slate investigates the algorithms that determine what content Facebook users see in their News Feeds. “According to a closely guarded and constantly shifting formula, Facebook’s news feed algorithm ranks [posts], in what it believes to be the precise order of how likely you are to find each post worthwhile,” it writes. “No one outside Facebook knows for sure how it does this, and no one inside the company will tell you.”

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