Monday, 29 August 2016

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 removed 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 synopses.

Now, algorithms are running almost the entire thing. The headlines are gone, and so are the editors, having reportedly been laid offRead more...

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