In Facebook recommendation system, super-sharers drown out less-active users. Super-sharers are more likely to be hyper-partisan & engage in spam-like ways

Facebook execs pushed back on proposal to reduce super-sharer influence since it might harm a hypothetical girl scout troop

Zuckerberg said to weaken proposal (to mitigate influence of super-sharers, who tend to be hyper-partisan & spam-like) by 80% and also signaled he was losing interest in the effort to recalibrate the platform in the name of social good.

At Facebook, there was this soul-searching period after 2016, but that checked after March 2018: “The internal pendulum swung really hard to ‘the media hates us no matter what we do, so let’s just batten down the hatches.’ ”

Quotes from: Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive

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