News Feed
also referred to as: newsfeed
3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Nov 13, 2022 by Alex Hardiman · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Nov 13, 2022 negative
Hardiman: Facebook feed algorithms optimized for engagement, not content quality
“When I was at Facebook and we were focused on news ranking and feed, all we could do was train pieces of information based on an engagement outcome. We couldn't actually train it based on the quality of that piece of information itself.”
Mar 3, 2024 positive
Jul 31, 2025
Taylor: Facebook required News Feed designs to use real, messy data
“At Facebook, we would always you know, we spent a lot of time designing the newsfeed... We made a system. So, you know, designers had to show their newsfeed designs with Real newsfeed data that was messy rather than, you know, anything artificial, because I th…”