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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
What Mark’s really mad about over that frenzied holiday weekend is that he sees the decision as his to make. Which is mystifying to the content operations and policy teams who’ve been applying the Community Standards and making difficult decisions like this for years. Until now, they’d escalate particularly hard decisions to Marne, occasionally to
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human tastemakers,
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
“BuzzFeed 101. He was just kind of optimizing.” Just as we’d been optimizing videos and posts for Facebook and Twitter, he’d been doing the same to himself. “His politics have been guided by platform metrics,” reflected a top BuzzFeed producer, Andrew Gauthier. Gionet’s colleagues had abided by some unspoken boundaries: factual accuracy, liberal
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Eugene Wei • TikTok and the Sorting Hat
Thanks to its success in attracting and holding an audience, and despite the controversies surrounding the content it dishes out, Facebook's algorithmic News Feed quickly became the template for other social media platforms and then for traditional media companies as they shifted their offerings online. Everyone rushed into the business of
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