Sean Tilley on Nostr: Facebook does this thing now where the main feed injects a constant stream of ...

Facebook does this thing now where the main feed injects a constant stream of far-right political content, regardless of what you actually engage with. It’s awful and sickening, but apparently Meta has some kind of deal with Newsmax to promote their content. Ostensibly, this deal is just for AI, but it wouldn’t be a shock if other promotional policies existed on top of that.

You literally have to opt out of all politics in your feed, which is frankly an awful design pattern.

I know, I know. “Get off Facebook!” But, if you want to understand why certain talking points seem to get saturated to a wider population, it’s important to understand this.