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    1. Joshua Benton‏Verified account @jbenton 10 Aug 2018

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      Unlike Cambridge Analytica or the gazillion other FB stories of recent years, this story didn't highlight bad actions by the company. Instead it *actively made American society and politics worse.* Not many stories actually do that, it's a high bar!https://twitter.com/jbenton/status/988137818068267009 …

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      Joshua BentonVerified account @jbenton
      That “Facebook was secretly pumping leftist news into Trending” is now stated as anything other than laughable is another sign that that Gizmodo story is the most damaging thing Gawker Media ever published https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/technology/facebook-campbell-brown-news.html … pic.twitter.com/3hSAKJM1IM
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    2. Joshua Benton‏Verified account @jbenton 10 Aug 2018

      Facebook's reaction to the story was (a) to hold an apology summit with conservatives, led by Glenn Beck, Jim DeMint, and Tucker Carlson, the start of multiple years of one-sided deference to complaints from the political right https://www.recode.net/2016/5/18/11702432/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-conservative-perceptions-gop-bias-trending-topics …https://www.wsj.com/articles/publishing-executives-argue-facebook-is-overly-deferential-to-conservatives-1531802201 …

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    3. Joshua Benton‏Verified account @jbenton 10 Aug 2018

      And (b) to fire all the humans providing normal, valuable editorial oversight to Trending, letting the system become completely algorithmically driven, 2.5 months before the 2016 election.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/29/facebook-fires-trending-topics-team-algorithm …

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    4. Joshua Benton‏Verified account @jbenton 10 Aug 2018

      Which led, inevitably, to countless examples of fake news being promoted in Trending — *actively* pushing tons of misinformation in front of hundreds of millions of people.https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/facebook-fires-human-editors-algorithm-immediately-posts-fake-news/ …

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    5. Joshua Benton‏Verified account @jbenton 10 Aug 2018

      If the Gizmodo story had been responsible — "Facebook actually uses humans, not just code, in making Trending" — FB would not have been pushing those fake news stories out of their contained circles of FB users and out to *all* Facebook users in the weeks before the election.

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    6. Joshua Benton‏Verified account @jbenton 10 Aug 2018

      So no, you don't get to take credit for Facebook's "current unwinding." Good journalism exposes bad behavior and leads to improvements. The Gizmodo story made reasonable behavior *look* like bad behavior and led to us all being worse off. /end

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    8. Joshua Benton‏Verified account @jbenton 10 Aug 2018
      Replying to @WillOremus

      But that story could have easily been written without the bogus "suppressing conservatives" angle. "Facebook says an algo picks Trending — but we talked to the humans who actually do," etc.

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    10. Joshua Benton‏Verified account @jbenton 10 Aug 2018
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      But the thing is normal boring editing wasn't the problem for people to get fired up about. 99% of News Feed's problems for democracy are about algo amplification — so getting people falsely fired up about "human libs pulling strings" was exactly the wrong thing to do

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Aug 2018
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      I'm with @jbenton. Both press *and* Facebook got played. From all actual reporting, the "editors" were doing minimal, boring weeding out of especially eggregious stuff. There was no scandal. FB often deserves bashing, but media often cannot discern when and why—and gets played.

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        2. Michael Nuñez‏Verified account @MichaelFNunez 10 Aug 2018
          Replying to @zeynep @jbenton @WillOremus

          Facebook admitted in its 2016 response to Sen. Thune that it could not reconstruct logs during the period we reported on. The truth is there were no guidelines or oversight when Trending launched — something I haven’t seen in “actual” reporting. https://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/93a14e98-2443-4d27-bf04-1fc59b8cf2b4/22796A1389F52BE16D225F9A03FB53F8.facebook-letter.pdf …pic.twitter.com/sSDE8xN8Tp

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Aug 2018
          Replying to @MichaelFNunez @jbenton @WillOremus

          Facebook does things haphazardly—worth criticizing and is a real problem—is not the same as "Facebook routinely censored conservative news", the headline that has not been supported by anything besides hunger for clicks, and has caused huge harm thanks also to press gullibility.

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