Damage control at FB
Seems to be run not by professionals with any kind of work ethics but by people who don't want to look bad. What fixes you ask? Those required to make FB look less bad, of course. Does that require any fundamental changes? Of course not, just make sure the top 20 looks reasonable and the algorithms can continue peddling those attention-grabbing stupidities to hook people and sell ads.
And you must love the excuse that ... "while the items listed on the top 20 links list do get millions of views, they collectively account for under 0.01 per cent of all referrals flowing out of Facebook." Anybody wonder what the other 99.99% look like? Well, there is data you might want to extrapolate.
I've seen people sucked into the FB parallel universe and it isn't pretty. And it definitely doesn't help fighting COVID or other global problems.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
