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thimabiyesterday at 3:11 PM2 repliesview on HN

Meta does both. It has long been said that businesses have little organic reach in Meta’s platforms, as an incentive for them to use ads.


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lazarus01yesterday at 3:55 PM

I’m not a big poster at all, but ran into this precise issue.

They analyze the video posts on instagram. If they detect the video has even a small amount of commercial value, they classify it as branded content and you need to pay for it to get promoted.

alex1138yesterday at 4:04 PM

For all the creepy People You May Know stuff they don't even bother connecting people properly even on people's personal pages https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147719