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08-29-2016, 09:03 PM
Facebook's Trending Topics highlights fake Megyn Kelly story days after dropping editors
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That didn't take long.
Just days after removing editors from curating Trending Topics, Facebook's news-driven section surfaced a fake story about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly.
This is just about a worst-case scenario for Facebook, which had previously been battling allegations that its Trending editors had discriminated against conservative news outlets.*
Facebook ******* the article after a few hours.*
Trending Topics editors originally used data from Facebook users to then curate news stories and write Facebook-friendly headlines and sy**pses.
**w, algorithms are running almost the entire thing. The headlines are gone, and so are the editors, having reportedly been laid off (http://qz.com/768122/facebook-fires-human-editors-moves-to-algorithm-for-trending-topics/).* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/29/facebook-trending-topics-fake-megyn-kelly-story/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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This is just about a worst-case scenario for Facebook, which had previously been battling allegations that its Trending editors had discriminated against conservative news outlets.*
Facebook ******* the article after a few hours.*
Trending Topics editors originally used data from Facebook users to then curate news stories and write Facebook-friendly headlines and sy**pses.
**w, algorithms are running almost the entire thing. The headlines are gone, and so are the editors, having reportedly been laid off (http://qz.com/768122/facebook-fires-human-editors-moves-to-algorithm-for-trending-topics/).* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/29/facebook-trending-topics-fake-megyn-kelly-story/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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