If you want to avoid accusations of bias, have a nonprofit third-party organization do it.
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In today's highly politicised... everything... can you name a nonprofit 3rd-party organisation universally considered unbiased?
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because they scale better?
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With a power law distribution you don't need scale.
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The distribution will evolve. You need algo filters for sustained success. Also imagine the uproar (human filters = censors...)
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that would work.
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how would it work? a) filter bubble means the "right" people won't see and b) they *want* the false stuff to be true
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Google cutting off ad income takes away most incentives. Seems < controversial for human make that decision than the distro decision.
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as usual, every 21st century media critique returns to the base case: how do we separate signal from noise without bias
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could not agree more. FB tried this already but got uncomfortable when the right accused them of biashttp://gizmodo.com/facebooks-fight-against-fake-news-was-undercut-by-fear-1788808204 …
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wasn't PageRank supposed to solve this?
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@paulg who decides what is fake news? E.g. is Russia Today is fake news or not? How about a story on climate change?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I think you may be naive here about power of the echo chamber. Fake news rocketed on Facebook when it delivered the "right" message
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A thorny subject! We discussed this at many big News orgs, it's probably FB's foundational bias. Slow humans still work best for now.
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IMO so much of the fake / generated then decimated news people experience exist within their self created bubbles on social media
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not sure if you're asking seriously or in jest....
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they do - user ops. but only as good as the tools they're given
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How do you deal with unproven conspiracies or conjecture? Truth is relative. Even fact checkers go overboard: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-fact-checkers-keep-destroying-fact-checking/article/2604163 …
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