This, and with machine learning entering this space very fast, we don't even directly understand much of it anymore.https://twitter.com/drewconway/status/729681780287152133 …
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The point isn't the past was some unbiased paradise and the future is horrible, but we've entered a new regime with new concentrated powers.
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Facebook feed algorithm sold as "what you want" but it structures the experience. FB trending is sold as algorithm but is FB's preferences.
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Meanwhile, Google still defines "algorithm" as computer programs that give you "exactly what you want."pic.twitter.com/7VPNGPMhf4
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I'm teaching an algorithms, big data and ethics class this Fall. I am so not writing the syllabus till August. Stuff comes out every week.
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BTW I *do* wish there were a better term than algorithm to mean "complex and opaque computation of consequence". Language does what it does.
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FB: "Trust us." Ok. Define "hoax", "sufficient source", "coherent", "effective" & "neutral". https://www.facebook.com/tstocky/posts/10100853082337958 …pic.twitter.com/xWaN0s5P2J
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For such decisions "we show you what's most interesting to you", there's no right answer, hence no escaping values—editorial or computation.
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Algorithms for, say, flying a plane, are different than algos to make a subjective decision. It's "no one right answer" all the way down.
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You see it in the Facebook VP's answer: they want to retreat to "we're neutral and effective." Doesn't work too well in human affairs.
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I don't mean "neutral" and "effective" don't work for Facebook. It doesn't work for human affairs. Welcome to your business model, Facebook.
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I am not saying why isn't Facebook neutral, surfacing non-hoax news only from sufficient sources. I'm saying that will always be contested.
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@TarletonG post on taking Facebook's role in the news and public sphere seriously.https://socialmediacollective.org/2016/05/09/facebook-trending-its-made-of-people-but-we-should-have-already-known-that/ …1 reply 7 retweets 19 likes - Show replies
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