Facebook claims viewers saw mostly positive comments during Zuckerberg's live-streamed speech due to "ranking signals" that filter out low-quality comments (Heather Kelly/Washington Post)

Heather Kelly / Washington Post:
Facebook claims viewers saw mostly positive comments during Zuckerberg's live-streamed speech due to “ranking signals” that filter out low-quality comments  —  Viewers saw nearly entirely positive comments and emoji because of how the algorithms behind a live stream with tens of thousands of viewers work

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