Zuckerberg met with Glenn Beck to assure him that Facebook's not biased against him. Beck-type anti-vaccination theories thrive on Facebook.
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Why don't critics coin one then? Why clash over semantics? It's really frustrating.
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I'm a linguistic descriptivist; I'd push the coined word but would use what people accept & understand.. That's language for you.
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Thanks! I Even Glenn Beck is writing pieces wondering what the brouhaha is about. He does just fine on Facebook.https://twitter.com/nxthompson/status/733659873196527616 …
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Whoa! New info on FB trending. Algorithmically ranked on probability of click is different beast than most frequent.pic.twitter.com/zr75Tm16A6
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your friends are right. You don't know what it's going to do or how it's going to do it. Opposite of algorithm.
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but that's an emergent property of using lots of algorithms (including machine learning) at scale. no good word besides that yet.
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This formulation is crucial, it politicizes & precisely frames problem; no reason to hold back articulating w/ needed consistence.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@maelorin Have you see our work on PolySocial Reality (PoSR) at http://posr.org ? http://posr.org/wiki/publications …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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There are many words. "Algorithm" is problematic-as someone sympathetic to your concerns, I still cringe at the abuse of terminology
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What word? I'd jump at one that expresses the sentiment. I get the difference between heapsort and this stuff.
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The real issue is the clicky, quarrelsome, upbeat biases of its algorithm.