I think this change is less to do with bias, more to do with costs, speed & scaling trends (which are algorithmically personalized anyway).
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Replying to @zeynep
Not about bias. Facebook fired the team that looked if topics were actual news—now making engineers do the same job.pic.twitter.com/cr68xnJ8m6
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Replying to @zeynep
Seems FB kept key components: algorithmically surfacing topics (some form of tf-idf) and algorithmically personalizing list on p(click).
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Replying to @zeynep
The only change is trend descriptions will no longer be writted by humans. They will be less useful but FB can do it faster at bigger scale.
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Replying to @zeynep
The "replacing humans" to eliminate bias seems to come from the reporting. I don't think that's the correct interpretation of this change.
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Replying to @zeynep
disagree, Facebook thinks, and knows people generally agree, that humans = bias, data = objective
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Replying to @nathanjurgenson @zeynep
FB is replacing an outside Trending team with FB engineers doing editorial work, not engineers' algorithms, though.
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Replying to @joshuacomer @zeynep
I'm just talking about *perception*. which is engineers do "data/truth", journalists "bias"
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Replying to @nathanjurgenson @joshuacomer
Facebook didn't say anything about bias; I think this is more about scaling "trends" globally.
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Still employing humans to "vet" the trends; just own engineers rather than (who-knows-who) subcontractors.
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That the press jumped up to read and report this as "eliminate bias" very telling though. No such claim in FB.
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Replying to @zeynep @joshuacomer
my point is what it *is* about, not what FB says
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Replying to @nathanjurgenson @joshuacomer
Is FB secretly thinking "will look less biased"? Don't think so; nothing in the release in that direction.
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