Their use of contractors is subtle. I&#x27;m sure employees manipulated the feed. The research they did in 2012 with Cornell had Facebook directly manipulating feeds to illicit emotional outcomes and they measured how those emotions propagated out to the rest of the subject&#x27;s network.<p>Again, the question is not if but, how much they manipulate. Calling it an &quot;Algorithm&quot; that is staffed by &quot;Quality Editors&quot; who can group tags and things together to make trending topics bigger is just a defense mechanism. Facebook can say or make anything they want to appear or disappear in your feed.