Seems Facebook stopped making trending topics purely algorithmic after criticisms about lack of Ferguson coverage.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/12/facebook-trending-news-leaked-documents-editor-guidelines …
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My piece on Facebook's algorithm vs. Ferguson protest coverage. https://medium.com/message/ferguson-is-also-a-net-neutrality-issue-6d2f3db51eb0#.3gb7k686m … The peer reviewed version: http://ctlj.colorado.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Tufekci-final.pdf …
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I don't think Facebook bringing editorial or quality control into the mix is a bad thing. I DO think it's a hard problem, esp. given scale.
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I do think the FB algorithm has a huge shaping power with a lot of effects—some intended, some not, some unforeseen, some from $$$ motives.
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My criticism is this: Facebook is now among the world's most important gatekeepers, and it has to own that role. It's not an afterthought.
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That Facebook mediates interactions within our social networks & flow of news is why it's such a huge, profitable company. That's its core.
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What makes Facebook successful is that gatekeeping role. I'm sure many Facebook engineers are super brilliant but that's not the core value.
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Facebook tries so hard to recruit engineers and to make some blue box just right. But it's core business is in humanities & social sciences.
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Facebook cannot escape humanities since it can't escape adopting values, nor social sciences since it judges rank in our social networks.
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Look, these are hard questions. The issues Facebook needs to grapple with are what humanity has grappled with for .. millennia. Seriously.
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Worst response is to pretend these issues do not exist. They do. Attention is scarce. Values have consequences and are contested. So on.
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And Facebook is in the middle of it all; maybe affecting more people than any predecessor, and all this in just over a decade.
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I'd like to see more of this discussion, and more realization that the core questions in technology are about values, not pixels. /endfornow
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