Facebook's
Trending Topics highlights fake Megyn Kelly story days after dropping editors
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.*
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