Internal documents reveal Facebook’s algorithm prioritized angry reactions, which were disproportionately likely to push out misinformation to users. Data scientists raised red flags internally ...

Five years ago, Facebook gave its users five new ways to react to a post in their news feed beyond the iconic “like” thumbs-up: “love,” “haha,” “wow,” “sad” and “angry.” ...

Facebook’s formula made it so posts that people reacted ... with an emoji instead of the “like” button, the Facebook algorithm would see the post as five times more valuable and push similar ...

The formula that keeps people engaged when on Facebook. Facebook algorithms feed people what they want to see and hear by analyzing their past interests, no different than Google and countless ...

Facebook is changing the formula behind its news feed to cut down ... Photo: Getty At Facebook Inc., the algorithm doesn’t always know best. In late August, the social network put an algorithm ...

based on a secret ranking formula devised by Facebook that includes more than 10,000 factors, is commonly referred to as “the news feed algorithm,” or sometimes just “the algorithm.” ...

the old formula goes like so: As you can see, EdgeRank considered three main factors: affinity, weight, and decay. While Facebook’s new ranking algorithm moves beyond EdgeRank into much more ...

In four new studies, researchers found complicated results from experiments on Facebook’s and Instagram’s algorithms, suggesting there was no silver bullet to fixing the platforms. By Mike ...

Like many confirmation numbers we use daily, from bus tickets to software purchase codes, Social Security numbers are assigned based on a formula that ... applied their algorithm to SSNs in ...