30-03-2018 21:52 via feedproxy.google.com

Facebook’s mission changed, but its motives didn’t

In January, Facebookannounced that it would be changing its feed algorithm to promote users’ well-being over time spent browsing content. That’s a relatively new approach for a company whose ethos once centered around “move fast, break things.”
It wasn’t all that long ago (approximately a year and a half before the algorithm change) that Facebook VP Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, published an internal memo called “The Ugly,” which was circulated thro
Read more »