A few days after the election, amid a flood of misinformation, Facebook dialed up a publisher quality score known as NEQ to make authoritative news more prominent. Now, employees wonder if the “nicer news feed” can stay. https://t.co/U3q91dlQG1pic.twitter.com/i8IyLaTpNo
I don’t know if we’ll ever get real transparency into what happened to Facebook’s algorithm this week but I’m convinced that if we do it’ll turn out to be something absolutely sidesplittingly hilarious, like they commented out a single line of code