Then on March 31 former UK deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who’s now in charge of Facebook’s global communication, wrote a blog piece that has been described as ‘wilfully naïve’ – saying the Facebook algorithm is just reflecting back what you, the user, feed it.
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Facebook's news feed algorithms are geared towards promoting whatever people are more likely to engage with, and that’s more likely to be something that’s provocative and outrageous and shocking, says Newsroom reporter Mark Daalder.
If that’s the case, says digital technology expert Dr Andrew Chen, it’s a funhouse mirror. Chen, a research fellow at the University of Auckland’s Koi Tū – Centre for Informed Futures – talks to