Quite an interesting piece from the viewpoint of a journalist drawn into the Maelstrom.
About two years after Pariser published his book, Facebook took over the news-media ecosystem. They’ve never publicly admitted it, but in late 2013, they began to serve ads inviting users to “like” media pages. This caused a massive increase in the amount of traffic that Facebook sent to media companies. At The Atlantic and other publishers across the media landscape, it was like a tide was carrying us to new traffic records.
What Facebook Did to American Democracy – The Atlantic
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