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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."
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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: 4, Insightful) by julian on Sunday August 28 2016, @03:42AM
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
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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