Facebook's Algorithm
The algorithm behind the News Feed determines which posts people see from friends, advertisers and other sources, and the order in which they look depending about how users answered to previous posts. Facebook or myspace, which has 2 billion dollars monthly active users, frequently tweaks its computer code. In May, Facebook has announced a change that would give lower dominance to links t web pages filled with deceptive or bothersome ads. A change that kicks off in september was designed to deemphasize stories with clickbait-style statements. Friday's change will de-prioritize links from specific junk emails, Mosseri said. Once you open Facebook, one of the world's most influential, controversial, and misitreperted algorithms springs into action. It scans and accumulates everything posted in the past week by each of your friends, everyone you follow, each group you belong to, and every Facebook page you might have liked. For the average Facebook user, that's more than 1, 500 content. If you have several hundred friends, it could be as many as 10, 000. Then, matching to a closely safeguarded and constantly shifting solution, Facebook's news feed protocol ranks them, in what it believes as the precise order of how likely you are to find each post useful. Most users will only ever see the top handful.
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