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> They bias what gets put in front of people, and what doesn’t.

What came first though, the chicken or the egg?

What came first, the content in an unbiased fashion and then the algorithms were trained on which content generated best engagement and it got promoted

or

did Facebook just behind the scenes start pushing bad content on a whim with no backing information? I don't think that happened



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