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

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 useless on Sunday August 28 2016, @12:50AM

    by useless (426) on Sunday August 28 2016, @12:50AM (#394067)

    They got caught, so they are just shifting the editing and selecting from contractors (who leaked the bias info in the first place) to in-house staff that they have more ideological control over, in order to lessen the chance of getting caught again.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Gravis on Sunday August 28 2016, @01:25AM

    by Gravis (4596) on Sunday August 28 2016, @01:25AM (#394076)

    They got caught, so they are just shifting the editing and selecting from contractors (who leaked the bias info in the first place) to in-house staff that they have more ideological control over, in order to lessen the chance of getting caught again.

    it's their site, they can make it as bias as they want. frankly, anyone getting their news from facebook isn't even looking for the truth.

    • (Score: 5, Funny) by aristarchus on Sunday August 28 2016, @01:45AM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Sunday August 28 2016, @01:45AM (#394079) Journal

      Wake up, sheeple! Can't you see how Facebook is suppressing legitimate conservative viewpoints, just because they can't handle the truth and they are all SJWs?

      (cue tsubasa: Lizard people in 10, 9, 8, 7, . . . .)

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2016, @02:41AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2016, @02:41AM (#394082)

        And a straw-man in even less time than that!

        • (Score: 3, Touché) by Marand on Sunday August 28 2016, @03:56AM

          by Marand (1081) on Sunday August 28 2016, @03:56AM (#394092) Journal

          Hey, give the guy some credit. The comment may have been blatant trolling, but at least it was understandable. That's an improvement!

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by julian on Sunday August 28 2016, @03:42AM

      by julian (6003) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 28 2016, @03:42AM (#394088)

      anyone getting their news from facebook...

      ...happens to be some significant fraction of humans in the USA and Western world besides. So it's not just an academic question or a matter of taste. These people, some of them at least, vote. If they're being systematically misinformed then your life and mine will be materially affected by their ignorance being turned into bad public policy. The privacy nightmare Facebook has created isn't the only problem. I'd say it's not even the worst thing it has done to our society. The filter bubble and ideological curation is arguably worse.

      • (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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