How Does The Facebook Algorithm Work? Facebook got only 1.620 billion unique visitors worldwide in May. The platform received 19.739 billion visits that month with an average session duration of ...

They got a Facebook newbie to sign up and twelve volunteers to friend him. When he updated his status or shared a link, they watched their own feeds to see if his posts showed up. Often, they didn't.

In its early years, Facebook’s algorithm prioritized signals such as likes, clicks and comments to decide which posts to amplify. Publishers, brands and individual users soon learned how to ...

What does Facebook’s computer code do with the data we give it – and what could it do in the future? There is a place on the internet where almost two billion of us regularly go – many of us ...

In 2009, when Facebook changed its newsfeed significantly for the first time, there wasn’t much uproar over “the algorithm.” Now we’re all talking about it—whatever “it” is.

(Bloomberg) -- U.S. lawmakers investigating how Facebook Inc. and other online platforms shape users’ world views are considering new rules for the artificial intelligence programs blamed for ...

Presumably because of this latest algorithm shift, my post stayed at the top of people’s feeds — even though part of the new change was supposed to lead people away from passively consuming content ...