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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Replying to @talyarkoni
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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Replying to @talyarkoni @zeynep
Fox News is allowed to exist peacefully (as it should, IMO); do you think we’d be more heavy-handed with FB or Google?
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Controls what billion+ people across can see with no opacity to what they're doing? Unprecedented centralization. You tell me.
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Replying to @zeynep
my original question was how you would want to regulate this kind of thing. your answer was “let them admit there’s a problem."
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I think we can agree no company will ever say it’s biased. so I ask again: how would we regulate this kind of thing?
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