Facebook Using Good, Old-Fashioned People to Help Tweak News Feed

Facebook has tried algorithms and surveys to help create the perfect News Feed, and now the social network is apparently turning to actual people

NewsFeedFBAssets650Facebook has tried algorithms and surveys to help create the perfect News Feed, and now the social network is apparently turning to actual people.

Steven Levy of Backchannel reported that Facebook is paying some 600 users to interact with their News Feeds four hours per day on a modified version of the social network, in an effort to make better decisions on what its users want and don’t want to see in their News Feeds.

Levy reported that an office park in Knoxville, Tenn.,

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