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re Facebook has repeatedly trended fake news since firing its human editors
From: "David Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 14:27:02 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "Synthesis:Law and Technology" <synthesis.law.and.technology () gmail com> Subject: Re: [IP] Facebook has repeatedly trended fake news since firing its human editors Date: October 12, 2016 at 1:53:10 PM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Cc: ip <ip () listbox com> Dave, With respect, absent statistics from the time before trending became fully automated, this data is meaningless. Did fake news stories trend before? Most certainly? As many? No clue. The part that has always been 'off' is the 'related' stories. A story about a bomb will bring up past stories about bombs that never happened as 'related' or 'also trending'. Dan Steinberg SYNTHESIS:Law & Technology 2-45 Helene-Duval Gatineau Quebec J8X 3C5 On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 12:33 PM, dfarber <dave () farber net <mailto:dave () farber net>> wrote: Begin forwarded message: From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com <mailto:lauren () vortex com>> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Facebook has repeatedly trended fake news since firing its human editors Date: October 12, 2016 at 12:25:40 PM EDT To: nnsquad () nnsquad org <mailto:nnsquad () nnsquad org> Facebook has repeatedly trended fake news since firing its human editors https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/10/12/facebook-has-repeatedly-trended-fake-news-since-firing-its-human-editors/ <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/10/12/facebook-has-repeatedly-trended-fake-news-since-firing-its-human-editors/> As part of a larger audit of Facebook's Trending topics, the Intersect logged every news story that trended across four accounts during the workdays from Aug. 31 to Sept. 22. During that time, we uncovered five trending stories that were indisputably fake and three that were profoundly inaccurate. On top of that, we found that news releases, blog posts from sites such as Medium and links to online stores such as iTunes regularly trended. - - - --Lauren-- Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/126708-d3e896e0> | Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&> Your Subscription | Unsubscribe Now <https://www.listbox.com/unsubscribe/?&&post_id=20161012123310:8E1970DA-9099-11E6-8261-31AFF010038B> <http://www.listbox.com/> ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/18849915-ae8fa580 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=18849915&id_secret=18849915-aa268125 Unsubscribe Now: https://www.listbox.com/unsubscribe/?member_id=18849915&id_secret=18849915-32545cb4&post_id=20161012142710:7B1AB394-90A9-11E6-B0BB-F0576E4BB609 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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