Facebook should hire *more* people to vet topics & integrate them into core business. Enough with denial phase about being in news business.
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I see the reporting but I see no story that actually confirms that Facebook moved from less algorithm to more on how topics are selected.
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Instead, seems Facebook fired a team focused on journalistic vetting and replaced them with engineers, expected to do the same job?
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jason Kint
Yep. I've long been arguing that Facebook needs MORE people with social sciences, journalism & humanities expertise.https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/770277379554086912 …
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Facebook's business is social interactions, news & information flows. These are core social science topics. Presto is cool, but not enough.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted nathanjurgenson
Right the team that was fired was doing more than vetting. Now, nobody is doing that part.https://twitter.com/nathanjurgenson/status/770358216958017536 …
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I don't know what more to say except amplifying false and malicious information is not a minor harm. Look at 2016.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/08/29/a-fake-headline-about-megyn-kelly-was-trending-on-facebook/ …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci
Here's a long thread from earlier this year with thoughts on better vetting on FB trending and role of algorithms.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/733270885839347712 …
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Look, the problem isn't only that people are sharing misinformation. It's people sharing *and* algorithms amplifying. It's a feedback loop.
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It's just not true that social media "only" makes what was already there visible. By amplifying & connecting, social media *changes* it too.
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Ideas that might have remained marginal can now find big audiences, which encourages their production, which then means audiences for them..
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