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Meet the world's most powerful editor: the 34-year-old controlling what you and 2.3 billion people see on Facebook

As the vice-president in charge of Facebooks news feed, the team he runs, and the decisions he makes, influence the reading habits of 2.3bn people.

The algorithms that he builds help determine which photos they see, what issues they are aware of and what news articles they read.

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Author: The Telegraph

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The Telegraph has recently written 11 articles on similar topics including :
  1. "I was in the kitchen making supper when my daughter Cecily cornered me for a 
ticking off". (July 6, 2019)
  2. "Social media firms will be banned from promoting self-harm or suicide content to children under a legally-enforced code of conduct to prevent a repeat of the death of Molly Russell". (April 5, 2019)
  3. "Instagram, Facebook and YouTube will be fined millions of pounds for showing harmful videos in the Government’s first crackdown on social media, the Telegraph can reveal". (August 12, 2019)
  4. "French government computers are to adopt the Gallic-funded search engine Qwant as their default browser amid alleged concerns that Google insufficiently protects data privacy". (January 10, 2020)
  5. "Boris Johnson has launched a passionate defence of his right to privacy as he said it was “not fair” for his loved ones to be dragged into politics". (June 25, 2019)
  6. "Think of it like a real-life Jason and the Argonauts". (August 4, 2019)
  7. "Facebook threatens to hamper the fight against terrorists and child abusers by increasing encryption, Priti 
Patel will warn on Wednesday". (July 31, 2019)
  8. "Facebook has thrown down the gauntlet to Amazon by announcing a raft of new shopping features for WhatsApp, Instagram and its own online Marketplace". (April 30, 2019)
  9. "He’s a two-time Oscar nominee, so there’s no question that Robert Downey Jr can act". (June 6, 2019)
  10. "The amount Brits are using Facebook has plunged by more than a third over the past 12 months, new research indicates, in sharp contrast to the company’s official statistics". (July 6, 2019)
  11. "‘Mum-shaming,’ ‘fat-shaming’, ‘slut-shaming’ and ‘engagement ring shaming’ (yes it’s ‘a thing’):". (August 12, 2019)
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