fair question. my sense is that the formal mechanisms are pretty useless, and the only thing that makes a diff is public outcry.
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Replying to @talyarkoni
these things are so opaque though. public editors, ombudsman, watchdogs etc. can help the public cry out.
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Replying to @zeynep
sure. I’m not against regulation of new media. my point is, I don’t think we got ombudsmen by waiting for Fox to say “we’re biased”.
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Replying to @talyarkoni
I'm not advocating waiting for anything but with Fox, you can at least see the coverage. Now data is proprietary, feeds secret.
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Replying to @zeynep
the coverage is the timeline. the newsroom is the algorithm. you see the former and not the latter in both cases.
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Replying to @talyarkoni @zeynep
I have no idea how a story decision is made at the NYT, and I can’t request a transcript of the editors convos, as far as I know.
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Replying to @talyarkoni
But you can see what's published on the page. And tons of people study/interview/interrogate decision makers. Big difference.
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Replying to @zeynep
but I can see my timeline, right? how else would conservatives complain that the timeline is biased?
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Replying to @talyarkoni
They are not complaining the timeline is biased. Anyway, you don't know what a billion people are seeing. With NYT, you do.
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Replying to @zeynep
the FB timeline is made up of personal posts. those can’t be made public.
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Who sees what in aggregate could be opened up to public editors. If there was any interest, many methods available.
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Replying to @zeynep
who would pay for this operation? and what incentive is there for FB or Google to do such a thing?
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Replying to @talyarkoni @zeynep
and suppose you got such data: how would you determine whether there is bias? and then, what would you do about it?
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