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5 Ways to Gain The Upper Hand in Facebook’s Newsfeed

Connection Cafe

Facebook recently announced a test in Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Slovakia, Serbia, Guatemala, and Cambodia. So the Newsfeed algorithm tries to predict what each user wants to see in their Newsfeed. But no algorithm is perfect. So they test and tweak. Users in these countries can only see Page posts that their friends comment on or share.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

Andrew Keen (via video), author of Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is killing our culture. Changes come through people and culture and not through technology. Like Sri Lanka where pictures weren’t getting out. Kevin Anderson, blogs editor of the Guardian.

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