{"id":345142,"date":"2018-01-23T21:43:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T20:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-facebook-employee-says-new-trust-algorithm-will-prevent-infowars-breitbart-gaming-the-system\/"},"modified":"2018-01-23T21:43:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T20:43:39","slug":"prison-planet-com-facebook-employee-says-new-trust-algorithm-will-prevent-infowars-breitbart-gaming-the-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-facebook-employee-says-new-trust-algorithm-will-prevent-infowars-breitbart-gaming-the-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Facebook Employee Says New \u2018Trust\u2019 Algorithm Will Prevent Infowars &#038; Breitbart \u2018Gaming\u2019 the System"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Social media giant set to roll out new system that will bury more news content<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson<\/strong><br \/>PrisonPlanet.com<br \/>January 23, 2018 <!-- NO_ADS_IN_ARTICLE --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.infowars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/230118facebook1.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\"><strong>Posts from a private Facebook forum obtained by Infowars feature a Facebook employee assuring another user that Infowars and Breitbart won\u2019t be able to influence the company\u2019s new \u2018trust\u2019 algorithm to make their content appear more regularly in people\u2019s Facebook feed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Facebook recently announced plans to revert back to a system where users would be more likely to see content posted by their close friends and family instead of breaking news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">\u201cThe site is also requesting data from users to discover which news sources people trust and want to see posts from,\u201d reported the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2018\/01\/20\/facebook-algorithm-update-will-change-news-feed-7245129\/\">Metro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">As part of this process of deciding which sources are trustworthy, Facebook is obviously keen to ensure that the likes of Infowars and Breitbart don\u2019t perform well, if chat logs from a closed group on Facebook are anything to go by.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">The conversation, which was sent to Infowars by a member of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/media.publishers\/\">News, Media &amp; Publishing on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0private group, shows one user asking a Facebook employee how the company will prevent followers of Infowars and Breitbart from organizing to have the two sites treated by Facebook as credible sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">\u201cLet\u2019s assume those players launch a campaign to mark their sites as credible, Facebook should be easily be able to see if these voters are highly partisan already,\u201d asks Matthew Karolian. \u201cThey should be able to see the amount of time that user spends on sites like Infowars, Breitbart, RT, etc, by using Facebook pixel data. It seems like a fairly trivial task to rank those votes accordingly,\u201d he adds, making the suggestion that people who declare Infowars and Breitbart to be credible sources should be punished by the algorithm by having their votes count for less.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.infowars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/fb1.jpg\" title=\"\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Facebook employee Jason White responded: \u201cIf we had a URL&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/facebook-employee-says-new-trust-algorithm-will-prevent-infowars-breitbart-gaming-the-system.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media giant set to roll out new system that will bury more news content Paul Joseph WatsonPrisonPlanet.comJanuary 23, 2018 Posts from a private Facebook forum obtained by Infowars feature a Facebook employee assuring another user that Infowars and Breitbart won\u2019t be able to influence the company\u2019s new \u2018trust\u2019 algorithm to make their content appear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-345142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}