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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Replying to @zeynep @nathanjurgenson
I'd agree if they were automating Trending, but how do engineers doing the same editorial work help it scale up?
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Replying to @joshuacomer @nathanjurgenson
Nobody to write descriptions: you can have a 10,000 topics trending around the world without hiring humans.
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Replying to @zeynep @nathanjurgenson
Ah, yes. Once a topic is verified by engineers as newsworthy it's cleared globally. Thank you.
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the whole thing is going to be even less useful; they won't have people speaking all the languages.
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