“But we’ve probably lost thousands of dollars because of them.”“F--- Facebook,” Wade says, knowing its algorithms sometimes assume that rapidly shared articles are spam and temporarily blocks them if posted by an alternative outlet. “That stuff works on Facebook.”What works on Facebook and what doesn’t work occupies many of the conversations between Wade and Goldman. “Because that’s what sold papers.”Now Wade writes on their Facebook page that “THOUSANDS” of protesters are marching “with MEXICAN FLAGS,” and meanwhile Goldman types his own article. Instead, as 4,000 people are on the website one night, Wade and Goldman keep writing and feeding, writing and feeding. He shares it on their Facebook page and watches as readers stream into the website — first a few hundred, then nearly 1,000.

Source: thestar November 21, 2016 17:41 UTC