Facebook is trying to get rid of bias in Trending news by getting rid of humans (user search)
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« on: August 27, 2016, 10:04:23 AM »
« edited: August 27, 2016, 10:07:09 AM by Seriously? »
The Trending News Team was caught manually inserting stories about the election into its news feed, instead of just identifying and curing algorithm changes. Gizmodo broke the story in May.

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Relevant Link: http://qz.com/768122/facebook-fires-human-editors-moves-to-algorithm-for-trending-topics/
The Relevant Gizmodo article: http://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006
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