Facebook's biases are not on a liberal/conservative axis. It's biased to be "viral, clicky, upbeat or quarrelsome":http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/opinion/the-real-bias-built-in-at-facebook.html …
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Maybe, instead of trying to apply all news to everyone, they should only apply to those who express an interest.
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@karaswisher@nytimes let me have my algorithm speak to your algorithm and we'll work this thing out.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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CS friends. I DO wish another word besides "algorithm" had emerged to mean complex opaque proprietary decision-making by computation. Alas.
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Why don't critics coin one then? Why clash over semantics? It's really frustrating.
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The real issue is the clicky, quarrelsome, upbeat biases of its algorithm.