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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What a denial of responsibility. If this were true, and Facebook had no influence, it would not be a $400b company. https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/796891604837494784 …
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well, value as an a advertising platform isn't the same as political effects on vote choice. maybe! we don't know.
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@BrendanNyhan We do! From back when they used to publish. Tiny tweak to algorithm impacts mood and boosts turnout by hundreds of thousands.2 replies 1 retweet 13 likes -
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Facebook is now a huge part of social-peer information flow. Decades of research says that's how people form/shift opinions.
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Replying to @zeynep
sure in part. but those mood/turnout effects were tiny at individual level. magnitude of FB effects being overstated
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at least as far as what we know scientifically
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The tweaks were tiiiiny, and yet they had measurable impacts. Obviously tiny on purpose--to get p-value without more impact.
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Voting study tweak was so tiny that blew my mind how big the impact was. Now imagine a year of fake Clinton news, every day.
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The added a small thumbprint picture to a civic message once, and only once, and turned out 300K+ more people.
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