Facebook admits rogue employees may have shown bias against conservatives
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Facebook admits rogue employees may have shown bias against conservatives
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#2I suspect this may be an unpopular opinion, but given that in my experience, the Trending tab tends towards garbage and clickbait instead of real news, one would imagine Fox News hysteria and Facebook's Trending news would be a match made in heaven, and if it weren't for personal curation, we would see even more garbage as a result.
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#3"But with nearly two-thirds of Facebook users saying they get at least some of their news from the online platform, conservatives said any chance of bias could skew political conversations."
Two-thirds... get at least some... Ooookay? I'm not sure at what point we're all supposed to start running around with our hair on fire. Am I supposed to pretend that the much smaller number of people who rely on Facebook for their news were ever going to be great in a political (or any other) conversation?
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#4It is hard for me to believe that one employee could show this kind of bias for this long without being noticed. It had to be more systematic and widespread. But good to see FB admitting it and taking corrective action.
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#5To be honest, I'm a.) somewhat surprised that people are surprised by this b.) not sure why there is a government probe into this. Also the irony of Glenn Beck bitching about bias in media is definitely not lost on me.
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#6It is hard for me to believe that one employee could show this kind of bias for this long without being noticed. It had to be more systematic and widespread. But good to see FB admitting it and taking corrective action.
It's more likely that their "liberal bias" reflected the general culture at FB and therefore seemed normal to most people.
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#7It is hard for me to believe that one employee could show this kind of bias for this long without being noticed. It had to be more systematic and widespread. But good to see FB admitting it and taking corrective action.
I also kind of rolled my eyes at the "rogue employee" angle. I hope Facebook makes things right.
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#8It seems to me that the same system that dialled in the ratio of happy to sad news was used here as well. Given that it's a configured system, hard to see how no one in charge was aware of the conservative misconfiguration.
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#9It is hard for me to believe that one employee could show this kind of bias for this long without being noticed. It had to be more systematic and widespread. But good to see FB admitting it and taking corrective action.
I also kind of rolled my eyes at the "rogue employee" angle. I hope Facebook makes things right.
Makes things right? There are no expectations of impartiality in American media.
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#10I'm still waiting for the Fox News bias probe.