Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive.

Why this matters here

Horwitz and Seetharaman’s May 2020 Wall Street Journal reporting describes Facebook executives shutting down internal efforts to make the site less divisive when engagement and growth concerns prevailed. When Incentives Become the Moral Language uses that episode for how predicted relevance can distribute agitation without anyone claiming to choose anger as a moral end. The article reports executive decisions and tradeoffs; the book asks when attention becomes both the measurement and the reward.