NYT confirms. Folks, this nugget is more important than the vetting of trending topics. https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/734037067072688128 …pic.twitter.com/dhmbP5SUvD
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NYT confirms. Folks, this nugget is more important than the vetting of trending topics. https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/734037067072688128 …pic.twitter.com/dhmbP5SUvD
We just learned the brouhaha over trending topics is moot because AT THE LAST STEP what survives vetting is algorithmically filter-bubbled.
Makes sense to fight over trending topics IF it can breakthrough to an audience you didn't have. What we just learned suggests not really.
See investigative reporting by @caitlindewey and my TL above. Trending topics is even less important than I thought.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/05/20/what-we-really-see-when-facebook-trending-picks-stories-for-us/ …
If FB trending algo-ranks 80 to show 3 you're likely to click—that's more newsfeed-y bubble. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/algorithm-transparency-paying-attention-man-behind-curtain-koren …pic.twitter.com/lCLH69d816
Why algorithmic accountability is key. "Predictive policing" that was innaccurate & racist. https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing …pic.twitter.com/qpuUgKgicn
In this case, algorithms had benchmarks to check (re-offense rate) and we knew a variable to look for: race. Often, we have neither.
It's not just that algorithms aren't checked. We're using them in subjective decision-making systems where you *can't* check: no benchmark.
Gah. Facebook will stop using news sites to vet trending topics.That was the positive part. https://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/93a14e98-2443-4d27-bf04-1fc59b8cf2b4/22796A1389F52BE16D225F9A03FB53F8.facebook-letter.pdf …pic.twitter.com/GG5zfIyLUm
If I am reading their letter to Thune right, Facebook's response is to gut a perfectly defensible part of the process. Why? PR concerns atm.
We just learned there are two separate instances that Facebook acknowledges newsfeed algorithm smothered #Ferguson.pic.twitter.com/5SKan7Tu4y
The first, during Ferguson protests, was because the algorithm worked. Second, sometime after Dec. 2014, was "an error". What was the error?
Algorithmic forensics must be part of any accountability and reflection process. The trending topics brouhaha helped bring that discussion.
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