Richard Metzger – Promoted Posts and the Economics of Facebook

By kimberlyrosewaldbillig, March 24, 2013

With the presentation of a Skype interview, moderator Miriam Rasch introduced Richard Metzger’s commentary in light of his article “I Want My Friends Back” on DangerousMinds.Net [Twitter, Facebook] As practice against the political economy of social networks, a protest of sorts, it went viral. Metzger’s beef with Facebook is that they initiated algorithm changes without consideration of the trickle-down effects (1). A [...]