That’s one of the key takeaways from a lengthy and interesting Slate.com article published late Sunday. The article is somewhat similar to one published a year ago on Medium, when Facebook first started talking about what it called the “feed quality panel” — a group of regular Facebook users the company pays to provide daily feedback on content in the News Feed. At that time, the panel was about 600 people all located in the US. As Slate reports now, Facebook became so reliant on the group’s feedback that it expanded the panel internationally late last summer.
