Algorithms aren't shaped just by what we want but also by what the company wants from us. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/opinion/the-real-bias-built-in-at-facebook.html …pic.twitter.com/JvGr5qdZDO
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If trending topics is also biased to be clicky & viral, that's super different than "most popular" then vetted.
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whoa. indeed.
I think the actual ranked trends one sees are based on an user's FB interest profile.
But selected for clickiness, as the former engineer reveals. Pretty significant difference.
Also, this seems to miss the fact that FB curators used an RSS to “inject” topics from news outlets not surfaced by algo.
FWIW, twitter's algo also seems to promote clickbait, judging frommy "while you were away"; links to longreads never there
That makes most logical sense. Analyze FB users likes, friends, interests, location, and tailor content based on that @jonathankoren
what is that suppose to mean in lay person language
FB "trends" are first surfaced by frequency & spikes (repeats eliminated), then vetted by curators, THEN personalized based +
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