Want to Know What Facebook Really Thinks of Journalists? Here’s What Happened When It Hired Some.

2018-04-19T02:48:55+00:00May 4th, 2016|Tags: , , |

Want to Know What Facebook Really Thinks of Journalists? Here’s What Happened When It Hired Some.

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Takeaways from Michael Nunez’s amazing article about Facebook’s inhouse journalists:

1) Facebook literally keeps their in-house journalists in a conference room in the basement.
2) That “Trending” box on your Facebook feed has its content determined by real live humans, not algorithms.
3) Most of the journalists working on the “Trending” box are in their late twenties or early thirties, and graduated from the Ivy League or schools like NYU.
4) These journalists all work at Facebook as independent contractors, and not Facebook employees.
5) The Trends section avoids linking to World Star Hip Hop, The Blaze, and Breitbart.

2018-03-27T08:17:22+00:00February 9th, 2015|Tags: , |


If Facebook becomes one of the top services in these countries, he explained in a recent earnings call, “then over time we will be compensated for some of the value that we’ve provided.”

It’s the tools that make the job

2013-05-08T17:14:20+00:00May 8th, 2013|Tags: , , |

The quality of your tools and your ability to continue to evolve them will allow you to suppress the need to hire for operational roles, allowing each front-line individual to do more, which simultaneously improving overall coordination (fewer people means coordination is easier) and keeps costs down. Today, the results of Facebook’s engineering leverage ratio means that there is one engineer for every 1.2 million users and despite our blistering user growth, the ratio is growing.

Emphasis mine. (source)

2018-03-27T09:46:13+00:00January 17th, 2012|Tags: , , |

Look at this map as if it is a game of Risk. Facebook is playing this just right, avoiding a land war in Asia until the rest of the globe is yours. Well played Zuck, well played.

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