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Business insider facebook algorithm. Facebook has always claimed that its mission is to bring people together but a new report from the wall street journal laid bare what many have suspected for some time. Its algorithms encourage and amplify harmful antisocial behaviour for money. Facebook s suicide prevention algorithm scans people s posts for potential suicide risk.

Business insider logo the words business insider. Mark zuckerberg reportedly signed off on a facebook algorithm change that throttled traffic to progressive news sites and one site says that quiet change cost them 400 000 to 600 000 a year. Facebook then trained an algorithm to predict which posts users would find bad for the world and make them less visible in people s feeds.

Mark zuckerberg signed off on a facebook algorithm change in 2017 that throttled traffic to progressive news sites costing journalism outlet mother jones hundreds of thousands of dollars. Facebook will stop automatically flagging or removing a small subset of content attacking americans men and white people a spokesperson for the company confirmed to business insider. Zuckerberg said facebook allows some violations before it completely bans an account but bannon s posts did not cross the line cnbc reported.

Is creating and storing mental health data a new danger. For years facebook has known that its algorithms encourage and amplify antisocial behavior like hate speech and extreme political bias to keep users engaged according to company documents.