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09-01-2016, 12:53 AM
Why we should worry about Facebook's Trending topics disaster
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Facebook isn't a great place to get your news. Yet millions of Americans use the social network to learn about what's going on in the world every day.
This is core to a new controversy over Facebook's Trending feature, which exists to connect users to relevant stories. The company fired several trained journalists (http://qz.com/769002/after-replacing-human-editors-with-an-algorithm-facebook-ended-up-with-a-fake-trending-news-story/) from the Trending team last Friday, leaving artificial intelligence and technical staff (http://www.slate.com/articles/tech**logy/future_tense/2016/08/how_facebook_s_trending_news_feature_went_from_mes sy_to_disastrous.html) to identify and deliver stories to the site's users.*
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg later commented on his company's place in the news business.
SEE ALSO: Facebook's Trending Topics highlights fake Megyn Kelly story days after dropping editors (http://mashable.com/2016/08/29/facebook-trending-topics-fake-megyn-kelly-story/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/31/facebook-trending-staff-fired/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Facebook isn't a great place to get your news. Yet millions of Americans use the social network to learn about what's going on in the world every day.
This is core to a new controversy over Facebook's Trending feature, which exists to connect users to relevant stories. The company fired several trained journalists (http://qz.com/769002/after-replacing-human-editors-with-an-algorithm-facebook-ended-up-with-a-fake-trending-news-story/) from the Trending team last Friday, leaving artificial intelligence and technical staff (http://www.slate.com/articles/tech**logy/future_tense/2016/08/how_facebook_s_trending_news_feature_went_from_mes sy_to_disastrous.html) to identify and deliver stories to the site's users.*
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg later commented on his company's place in the news business.
SEE ALSO: Facebook's Trending Topics highlights fake Megyn Kelly story days after dropping editors (http://mashable.com/2016/08/29/facebook-trending-topics-fake-megyn-kelly-story/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/31/facebook-trending-staff-fired/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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