Thiago Carvalho on Nostr: 'Because Facebook wanted to show that its algorithm was not increasing polarization, ...
'Because Facebook wanted to show that its algorithm was not increasing polarization, it made claims that both Science and the authors saw as unsupported by the research. The global affairs president of Meta (Facebook’s parent company), Nick Clegg, said that the papers undermined claims that the site was designed to “serve people content that keeps them divided,” while author Natalie Jomini Stroud countered that Clegg had overstated the extent to which the study can be interpreted in Facebook’s favor.'
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt2983Published at
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