Misunderstanding one: algorithms involve no human judgment. Also not really: algorithms reflect unconscious human biases.
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Even Glenn Beck confused by claim Facebook is biased against conspiracy theorists like him. https://medium.com/@glennbeck/what-disturbed-me-about-the-facebook-meeting-3bbe0b96b87f#.9pkcc3fj6 …pic.twitter.com/JXl5CWUTyL
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283 items on Facebook's & conservatives.
The real issue is the clicky, quarrelsome, upbeat biases of its algorithm.pic.twitter.com/oxxYriYC4m
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I wrote about of Facebook but this applies to all subjective decision-making by algorithm. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/opinion/the-real-bias-built-in-at-facebook.html …pic.twitter.com/JI2upDV8VF
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I focus on Facebook because it's consequential but also because it's a familiar example for computational decision-making. Issue is wider.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Kara Swisher
Thank you! These algorithms have big feedback loops—leading to algorithmic spirals of silence and winner-takes-most.https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/733594708392316928 …
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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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zeynep tufekci Retweeted nxthompson
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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I think the actual ranked trends one sees are based on an user's FB interest profile.
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But selected for clickiness, as the former engineer reveals. Pretty significant difference.
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