8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (3)
#5544457 at 2019-03-06 23:27:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7089: FB RETURNING TO THE NEWS Edition
These are the Facebook execs who have announced their departure in 2018, as of Sept. 1st of 2018.
Jan Koum, co-founder of Facebook-owned WhatsApp
Elliot Schrage, head of communications and public policy
Colin Stretch, Facebook's top lawyer
Alex Stamos, formerly chief security officer at Facebook
Dan Rose, one of Facebook's earliest executives and VP of partnerships
Rachel Whetstone, a top communications executive at Facebook. (Who went to Netflix).
Alex Hardiman, head of news products.
#2847811 at 2018-09-02 19:12:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3600: You're FIRED Edition
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Jan Koum, co-founder of Facebook-owned WhatsApp, announced his exit in April in a Facebook post saying it was time to "move on."
Elliot Schrage, head of communications and public policy, said in June he was leaving Facebook after more than 10 years. "I've decided it's time to start a new chapter in my life," Schrage said in a post to his Facebook page.
In July, Colin Stretch, Facebook's top lawyer, announced he'd be leaving the company after more than eight years.
"When my wife Alyse and I made the decision a few years ago to move back to DC from California, we knew it would be difficult for me to remain in this role indefinitely," he said in a Facebook post.
Alex Stamos, formerly chief security officer at Facebook, formally stepped down in August following earlier rumors of his departure and an internal memo to staff.
Also in August, Dan Rose, one of Facebook's earliest executives and VP of partnerships, said he was leaving. Rose joined Facebook in 2006, and is leaving to join his family in Hawaii.
Earlier this week, Netflix announced it had poached Rachel Whetstone, a top communications executive at Facebook. Whetstone had only been at the company for a year. She is the only executive on this list not to comment on her exit on her personal Facebook account. She follows her boss, Schrage, in leaving.
That brings us to Wednesday, when Alex Hardiman, head of news products, announced her departure. Hardiman had been at Facebook for what she called "two deeply gratifying years," and will join The Atlantic.
"I've always been a news person. It's my passion during the workday and my guilty pleasure on nights and weekends,"
#1610865 at 2018-06-01 23:39:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2026: "Think clock. Wind the clock w/ all markers" Edition
Facebook scraps 'Trending' section that ignited fracas over anti-conservative bias
Facebook announced Friday will remove its "Trending" topics section, the snafu-plagued module behind the 2016 uproar over the suppression of conservative news.
The feature, introduced in 2014, will be pulled next week and replaced with other venues for news access, with an emphasis on mobile access and video, Alex Hardiman, head of Facebook news products, said in a post.
"From research we found that over time people found the product to be less and less useful," he said. "We will remove Trending from Facebook next week and we will also remove products and third-party partner integrations that rely on the Trends API."
The soon-to-debut features include a news video section on Facebook Watch "where people can view live coverage, daily news briefings and weekly deep dives that are exclusive to watch."
Facebook is also testing a feature that "lets publishers put a 'breaking news' indicator on their posts in News Feed," and a dedicated section called "Today In" that links to local publishers, officials and organizations.
The "Trending" section, located in the top right corner of the page, currently provides links to stories on third-party news outlets, primarily newspapers, wire services, magazines and television websites.
One problem is that the feature wasn't driving much traffic, only accounting for about 1.5 percent of clicks to publishers on average, Mr. Hardiman said.
The section landed in the middle of a brouhaha over bias when Gizmodo reported in May 2016 that Facebook workers were squelching popular reports about conservatives and injecting other stories that wouldn't qualify for inclusion on their own.
The anti-conservative slant also resulted in fewer links to right-of-center news outlets.
"Stories covered by conservative outlets (like Breitbart, Washington Examiner, and Newsmax) that were trending enough to be picked up by Facebook's algorithm were excluded unless mainstream sites like the New York Times, the BBC, and CNN covered the same stories," said Gizmodo in the report.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg denied the allegations but met a week later with a dozen leading conservatives "to talk about how we can make sure Facebook continues to be a platform for all ideas across the political spectrum."
A few months later, Facebook also fired its trending team in order to rely instead primarily on a computer algorithm, which resulted in its own set of problems, including the posting of a fake story about then-Fox News host Megyn Kelly being fired for supporting Hillary Clinton.
https:// www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/1/facebook-scraps-trending-section-ignited-fracas-ov/