Facebook's algorithm is central to how news & information is consumed in the world today, and no historian will write about 2016 without it.
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2016 was a close election where filter bubbles & algorithmic funneling was weaponized for spreading misinformation. http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/11/the-forces-that-drove-this-elections-media-failure-are-likely-to-get-worse/ …pic.twitter.com/cbgrj1TqFb
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Had many threads last year, but keep coming back to this one from last April. This. is. not. a. historical. anomaly. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/725378841091428352 …pic.twitter.com/GUF3gHnw1Z
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Look, this isn't just making things visible. The more you see things, the more they are reinforced. This mattered. https://twitter.com/SuePGardner/status/796441937918115840 …
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FB algorithms have clear bents: filter-bubble, clicky or quarrelsome content. Yes, it builds on human tendencies. It greatly amplifies them.
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Twitter's own (lack of) policies about harassment & extreme racism also played a role in all this. It's all complex, but this is part of it.
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Having monitored Trump social media for a year; yep. Routine stuff. Everyday. All day. https://twitter.com/SuePGardner/status/796466540736454656 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Sheera Frenkel
Well about time, but this was a problem before, too.https://twitter.com/sheeraf/status/796515020905574400 …
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I don’t get why so many of us reiterate that it was a problem before. It’s like we’re getting preachy at people for finally agreeing
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Partly frustration? My first NYT oped was about data mining and profiling; used Obama campaign as example. Got a lot of pushback
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I've been doing the "these tools are dangerous in all hands" for years. To a lot of shrugging in Silicon Valley.
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