{"id":12344,"date":"2021-11-04T07:52:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T11:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=12344"},"modified":"2021-11-04T07:52:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T11:52:40","slug":"five-points-for-anger-one-for-a-like-how-facebooks-formula-fostered-rage-and-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/five-points-for-anger-one-for-a-like-how-facebooks-formula-fostered-rage-and-misinformation\/12344\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Points for Anger, One for a \u2018Like\u2019: How Facebook\u2019s Formula Fostered Rage and Misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published in The Washington Post, Oct 26, 2021.\u00a0\u00a0 Facebook engineers gave extra value to emoji reactions, including \u2018angry,\u2019 pushing more emotional and provocative content into users\u2019 news feeds. Five years ago, Facebook gave its users five new ways to react to a post in their news feed beyond the iconic \u201clike\u201d thumbs-up: \u201clove,\u201d \u201chaha,\u201d \u201cwow,\u201d \u201csad\u201d and \u201cangry.\u201d Behind the scenes, Facebook programmed the algorithm that decides what people see in their news feeds to use the reaction emoji as signals to push more emotional and provocative content \u2014 including content likely to make them angry. Starting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/five-points-for-anger-one-for-a-like-how-facebooks-formula-fostered-rage-and-misinformation\/12344\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in The Washington Post, Oct 26, 2021.\u00a0\u00a0 Facebook engineers gave extra value to emoji reactions, including \u2018angry,\u2019 pushing more emotional and provocative content into users\u2019 news feeds. Five years ago, Facebook gave its users five new ways to react to a post in their news feed beyond the iconic \u201clike\u201d thumbs-up: \u201clove,\u201d \u201chaha,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[59,166,519,243,8],"class_list":["post-12344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-analytics","tag-data-science","tag-facebook","tag-machine-learning","tag-predictive-analytics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12345,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344\/revisions\/12345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}