&gt; The company backed away from a pure-algorithm approach in 2014 after criticism that it had not included enough coverage of unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, in users’ feeds.<p>This strikes me as interesting, if only because it says something about the audience of Facebook users.<p>Sense of community aside, the reason I keep coming back to HN is because I trust that the audience will upvote stories that are interesting to me.<p>I guess because Facebook has such wide community demographics, it can&#x27;t rely on its users to do the policing.