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by caminante 3397 days ago
> I'm not sure if this is the core of the problem, if at all. Most of what you see on facebook are links shared by your network.

Except FB's said [0] that the four main factors for what you see are who posted, age of article, article type, and interactions. The last factor is key as FB wants articles to draw eyeballs in order to sell ads. Thus, it sounds like the algorithm doesn't produce newsfeeds that are representative of what a majority of friends are reading v. that of a select, active few. I think the parent is arguing that FB could turn this off and improve newsfeed information quality at the cost of lower revenues.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/06/ultimate-guide-to-the-news...