“If you took away advertising from the platforms we have currently, if you took away the need to addict people and harvest their data and keep them refreshing their pages, what would that experience look like?”
“The kinds of things that I often see could literally be stopped by one person. I mean: 4chan trending on Google during the Las Vegas shooting? How that even happened, I have no idea, but I do know that one person could have stopped that.”
Half the people in our survey saw no news at all in the first 10 posts in their feeds — even using an extremely generous definition of “news” that counted everything from celebrity gossip to sports scores to history-based explainers, across all mediums.
Wang, Shan. "How much news makes it into people’s Facebook feeds? Our experiment suggests not much." AndroidForMobile Journalism Lab. AndroidForMobile Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 18 Dec. 2017. Web. 24 May. 2018.
APA
Wang, S. (2017, Dec. 18). How much news makes it into people’s Facebook feeds? Our experiment suggests not much. AndroidForMobile Journalism Lab. Retrieved May 24, 2018, from http://androidformobile.info/2017/12/how-much-news-makes-it-into-peoples-facebook-feeds-our-experiment-suggests-not-much/
Chicago
Wang, Shan. "How much news makes it into people’s Facebook feeds? Our experiment suggests not much." AndroidForMobile Journalism Lab. Last modified December 18, 2017. Accessed May 24, 2018. http://androidformobile.info/2017/12/how-much-news-makes-it-into-peoples-facebook-feeds-our-experiment-suggests-not-much/.
Wikipedia
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