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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Facebook's power is successfully leveraging network effects to scale up to 20% of humanity with an ALGORITHM ranking social ties & news.
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That Facebook tried to have some standards to make sure "trending topics" corresponded to news by hiring a dozen people? Not the big story.
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Programmers cultural assumptions about how news propagates will bias the algorithm, but Cronkite’s writers had the same issue.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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