Content that was bad for the past six months was promoted in the Facebook News Feed. The Russian state media outlets Facebook pledged to downrank in response to the invasion of Ukraine because of the News Feed ranking flaw.
It seems like a joke Saturday Night Live would make about Facebook because of the way the News Feed's brain stem reversed the effects of its moderation systems. Posts identified by fact checkers or Facebook's artificial intelligence for downranking would receive a boost to their visibility. The company's engineers said that Facebook's systems juiced theseintegrity risks by as much as 30 percent worldwide. As many as half of News Feed users were affected by the bug.
Meta detected inconsistencies in downranking on five separate occasions, which correlated with small, temporary increases to internal metrics, and we traced the root cause to a software bug.
The News Feed had a technical issue that began in late 2021. The company's engineers knew of the problem in October of last year but couldn't find a solution until March 11th. The engineers christened their six-month-old satan baby with Facebook's most dire and dorky designation.
The News Feed is the collection of posts every user sees first when they go to Facebook.com or open the Facebook app. The flaw in the News Feed exposed more than a billion people to content Facebook intended for them not to see.
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