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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Big problem: "Inside Facebook, the very idea of bias creeping into the system is taboo." https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/failure-to-accurately-represent-trending-caused-facebook-unn …pic.twitter.com/65sadc8fpd
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Also. Thank you, whoever you are.pic.twitter.com/zZXpQVpFsS
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Last thing that needs to be taboo inside Facebook: the question of bias BUT IN THE NEWSFEED. https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/failure-to-accurately-represent-trending-caused-facebook-unn …pic.twitter.com/xdPJ3npGdt
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I also still fail to see why a bit of vetting in the trending topics box is wrong on principle. What's wrong with verifying news is news?
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To show Facebook is "neutral", Zuckerberg will meet with Glenn Beck. Will they discuss Beck's anti-vax theories that do so well on Facebook?
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Well.
If I'm reading this right, Facebook is confirming the #icebucketchallenge drowned out #Ferguson on Aug 2014.pic.twitter.com/nQOLDQ8odG
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Deen Freelon
Algorithms optimized for virality on ad-financed platforms as rulers of the public sphere is where we are headed.https://twitter.com/dfreelon/status/732575916023390208 …
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