On Facebook, you decide whom to befriend, which pages to follow, which groups to join. But once you’ve done that, it’s Facebook that decides which of their posts you see each time you open your feed — and which you don’t.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Lawmakers’ latest idea to fix Facebook: Regulate the algorithm
Whistleblower Frances Haugen says the software that decides what we see in our social feeds is hurting us all. But reforming it won’t be easy.
Analysis by Will Oremus
October 12, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. EDT