{"id":6647,"date":"2017-02-10T14:20:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T14:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=6647"},"modified":"2017-02-01T14:23:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T14:23:37","slug":"linked-facebooks-walled-wonderland-is-inherently-incompatible-with-news-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/02\/10\/linked-facebooks-walled-wonderland-is-inherently-incompatible-with-news-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Facebook\u2019s Walled Wonderland Is Inherently Incompatible With News Media&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3353,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/mondaynote.com\\\/facebooks-walled-wonderland-is-inherently-incompatible-with-news-media-b145e2d0078c#.fx6hul1bq&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250612080148\\\/https:\\\/\\\/mondaynote.com\\\/facebooks-walled-wonderland-is-inherently-incompatible-with-news-media-b145e2d0078c&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 03:58:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-13 08:14:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-10 01:23:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-13 17:10:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-17 06:12:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-27 17:27:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-02 05:32:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-06 12:48:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-20 06:55:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 00:33:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-23 21:25:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 03:15:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 03:15:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mondaynote.com\/facebooks-walled-wonderland-is-inherently-incompatible-with-news-media-b145e2d0078c#.fx6hul1bq\">via Monday Note<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Facebook is made up of dozens of millions of groups carefully designed to share the same views and opinions. Each group is protected against ideological infiltration from other cohorts. Maintaining the integrity of these walls is the primary mission of Facebook\u2019s algorithm.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We must face the fact that Facebook doesn\u2019t care about news in the journalism sense. News represents about 10% of the average user newsfeed and news can be cut overnight if circumstances dictate with no significant impact for the platform. (Actually, someone with good inside knowledge of the social network told me that news will be removed from users\u2019 feed should the European Union move against Facebook in the same way it attacks Google on editorial issues).<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was one of the best pieces written about modern Facebook that I\u2019ve read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Monday Note: Facebook is made up of dozens of millions of groups carefully designed to share the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-02-10T14:21:21Z","apple_news_api_id":"96d381d6-bc4e-4241-82c8-baf0fa324cb7","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-02-10T14:21:21Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AltOB1rxOQkGCyLrw-jJMtw","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1Jd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5190,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/11\/09\/linked-googles-potential-game-changing-boost-to-mobile-pages\/","url_meta":{"origin":6647,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Google\u2019s Potential Game Changing Boost To Mobile Pages&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"November 9, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"via Monday Note: Five months: that\u2019s all it took for Google to respond to Facebook\u2019s mobile offensive. 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