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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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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@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.1 reply 4 retweets 11 likes -
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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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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This was the result of FB’s haphazard behavior — as told in the story.
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Misreporting, exaggrating, making false claims—"routinely censored conservatives"—is not due to Facebook—except indirectly that clickbait is something due to the way digital economy works, with Facebook at the center. Misdiagnosing the problem is 1-wrong, 2-caused enormous harm.
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Facebook had no guidelines for curators, and my source kept a log of several conservative news stories that were not allowed to trend via a blacklisting tool. All of this is explained in the story and I challenge you to find evidence otherwise
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So let’s take what you say at face value. Single anonymous source claimed to you “several” conservative stories were blacklisted at a time conservative content routinely dominated Facebook—and headline is “conservative news routinely censored”?!? No other corroboration or source.
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That’s called being played by curveball. Same dynamic. And then rest of media jumped in with more clickbait.
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