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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: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2016, @05:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2016, @05:38AM (#394108)

    Open-source the algorithm that selects what news to display. Otherwise the algorithm does not exist.

    No need to blame a person anymore. Blame the algorithm. Shift responsibility from the jew to an inanimate object so the jew can plunder the world more thoroughly while hiding in the shadows. One-world agenda pushing jew algorithm is no replacement for a human... or even a rat.

    Repeated news about jews will blind a person to the truth that the jew is the enemy. Slow-boiling frog.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by janrinok on Sunday August 28 2016, @07:50AM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 28 2016, @07:50AM (#394128) Journal
    i have this strange, inexplicable, feeling that makes me think there is a group of people that you dislike. Call it a sixth sense, if you will, maybe it is a magical power, but there is something nagging away at me in the back of my mind....

  • (Score: 1) by J_Darnley on Monday August 29 2016, @02:26AM

    by J_Darnley (5679) on Monday August 29 2016, @02:26AM (#394405)

    An algorithm without the data and the rest of the software is meaningless. You can't know that they're using what they say they're using when it is just other people's computers (i.e the cloud).