Facebook Removed The News Feed Algorithm In An Experiment. Then It Gave Up.

New leaked Facebook documents show what happened when Facebook tried to remove feed ranking. It didn't go well.

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Everyone seems to hate Facebook’s News Feed algorithm. Critics want to do away with it, and Congress may strip Facebook’s lega…