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Social media is turning into a freak show
www.natesilver.net
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Nate Silver starts with a history lesson from the March 2014 re-launch of FiveThirtyEight, when "Publishers believed that maximizing “reach”, particularly as measured by the number of monthly unique visitors, was the key to success", which meant gaming Facebook's News Feed algorithm. That didn't work, as facebook and publishers were "locked into a…

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08/06/2026

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