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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How values influence & operate in direct editorial decision-making & computational processes operate don't truly correspond to each other.
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Perfectly plausible for Facebook executives, for example, to be liberal leaning, but Facebook, the platform to empower illiberal currents.
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Algorithms, especially complex ones at Facebook scale, aren't like making editorial decisions in a newsroom. We NEED NEW TOOLS AND CONCEPTS.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted lumps937
Oh, more than half of young people in US and many people around the world in countries that censor mass media.https://twitter.com/gripping_hand/status/731121751434760196 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Curmudgeon
In the 21st century, this is saying don't have a phone if you don't like THE phone company controlling who you call.https://twitter.com/dbennett_ks/status/731126399822528512 …
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I know this is meant sarcastically but both of these statements are correct and do not contradict each other at all. https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/731669246510432256 …
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Watching the Facebook/bias coverage made it clear that so many misunderstandings remain. Public debate is mostly fighting the last war.
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Algorithms are not neutral. But their biases & slants do not operate like those of human editors. The conflation is muddying the debate.
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Besides, machine learning is coming. Machine intelligence used in subjective decision-making is a new beast. Old analogies don't work well.
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I hope to have my piece out (soon hopefully), and hopefully written in an accessible way. Sometimes tempted to write 5K words instead...
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Trump page+"Muslims will ban bacon"=click-through money. More apt than "trending" uproar. http://fusion.net/story/302013/trump-troll-army-facebook-money/ …pic.twitter.com/sMuryQLgHU
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