Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive
By: The Wall Street Journal May 26, 2020 A Facebook Inc. team had a blunt message for senior executives. The company’s algorithms weren’t bringing people together. They were driving people apart. “Our algorithms exploit the human brain’s attraction to divisiveness,” read a slide from a 2018 presentation. “If left unchecked,” it warned, Facebook would feed […]