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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Replying to @zeynep
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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Donald Trump and conspiracy theories. Both do very well on Facebook. It's what people want and it's the algorithm.http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/upshot/donald-trump-and-conspiracy-theories-what-a-poll-in-2011-signaled.html …
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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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One weakness here is that algorithms is too broad. A recipe for egg salad is an algorithm. Clarity on this could aid your arguments.
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I hear you. Not happy "algorithm" is the word that emerged to mean complex computational filtering.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/733656743486574592 …
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Possibly you could refine the arguments. Clearly delineate the different types of bias and find appropriate names for each.
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I am working on longer pieces for sure, but in a 1,000 word op-ed. Lingustic descrpitivism rules. I use what communicates.
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Like, I want to use every term in this paper: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43146.html … How to do it when writing to the public? Challenging.
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Maybe we could DM or email away from the Twitterverse. I'll try to read through some more and think of alternative nomenclature :).
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followed. If there were better wording, I'd use it. We can maybe develop terminology for other aspects? Need word committee.
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