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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I watch this carefully. Twitter trending breaks filter-bubbles. Facebook trending reinforces them. Now I know exactly why.
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Why? We don't really know the details of any of these algorithms. Nor do we have comprehensive surveys of their results.
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No, Twitter trending has had a "velocity" component since 2010. http://adage.com/article/trending-topics/twitter-radically-reworked-trending-topics-algorithm/144023/ … Doubtless many other tweaks too.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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