Despite evidence that only a minority of Facebook users realize their news feeds are guided by an algorithm, there are still plenty of home grown ideas about how posts are chosen to appear.
Facebook, of course, won’t tell us precisely how the feed works.
But researchers have gathered 10 “folk theories” of the mysterious algorithm in a paper describing a study of 40 users.
If people only knew what data science tools (Machine Learning and other AI) can do in the unscrupulous hands of Facebook. First time I tried to register at steemit I was prompted for Facebook credentials.... I asked myself, whats the point?
What's the point of typing in Facebook credentials?