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Facebook Sacks "Trending Topics" Editors

posted by janrinok on Sunday August 28 2016, @12:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the future-of-journalism dept.

butthurt writes:

Tech Times reports (alternate link) that Facebook has sacked the editors responsible for the site's "Trending Topics." According to the Facebook blog, the section is to be produced by "[a] more algorithmically driven process."

alternate coverage:

related stories:

Facebook is Keeping its Employees' Politics in Check With Bias Training
US Senate Launches Inquiry Over Facebook's Alleged Political Bias in Trending News List

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  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Sunday August 28 2016, @06:45PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 28 2016, @06:45PM (#394288) Journal

    Can you name a news source that *doesn't* systematically misinform the reader? Even one?

    The only quibble I might have is on the "systematically" part, since some don't do it with an obvious bias, but even those selectively edit things, or leave things out, to "be more interesting", which is a systematic bias.

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