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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Replying to @talyarkoni
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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Replying to @talyarkoni @zeynep
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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Replying to @talyarkoni
I have ideas; none that don't involve some level of cooperation from the companies. Not going to pretend to have full model.
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At a minimum: a public editor for the algorithm, like NYT has for reporting; algorithmic forensics; ethics board; etc.
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Replying to @zeynep
those seem like good ideas to me, pending elaboration. I hope they can be fleshed out and carried forward.
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Replying to @talyarkoni @zeynep
@emilybell phaps both 'bias' & 'neutrality' are problematic concepts here; and we might just say algorithms have goals..1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes - Show replies
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