By Faye Miller, University of Canberra
Facebook last week announced a redesign of its news feed to prioritise posts from friends and family over those of news publishers.
While struggling news organisations are likely to take a hit on their social traffic, the move suggests that Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has been paying attention to criticisms around issues such as fake news and adverse mental health outcomes.
In many cases, the biggest shortcomings of these technologies are failures of design.
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