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            1. The changes to de-news-ify Facebook personal/user feeds in favor of news-sharing behavior being isolated only to pages has only made the feed easier to game with the right tools and mindset. But news organizations pivot slowly while fraudsters pivot quickly so...
          1. …in reply to @Chronotope
            because Facebook's changes favor fast, mostly un-noted, pivots to the algorithm to seek 'fixes', these solutions will always favor content fraudsters and fake news; because those are precisely the users capable of changing strategy most quickly.
        1. …in reply to @Chronotope
          News organizations that produce legitimate news do not change strategies quickly. & they have much more to lose when the needed changes are unclear, making them even less likely to shift approach. Cooperation and transparency are at the core of any real solution to content fraud
      1. …in reply to @Chronotope
        Anyway, if your curious what tactic change currently appears to net you the largest result on user accounts, the answer is stop posting links in the body of your posts. Instead put the normal comments or quotes there and the links below in the replies...
    1. …in reply to @Chronotope
      If you think it is odd that the new algorithm changes intended to eliminate fake news favor sharing news in a way that makes what is being shared and the sources of such sharing more obscured and difficult to parse... yeah, it *is* odd.
  1. …in reply to @Chronotope
    Like most Facebook strategies there is a 50/50 chance this will still work in a month.
    1. …in reply to @Chronotope
      Wow getting in some more significant numbers this week and it is remarkable how much more effective this has been. This is incredibly irritating.


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