keybored
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02/15/2018 08:21 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Facebook ‘quality news’ prioritization may result in ‘bias & won’t change quality’ Although AI, machine-generated content removal in the social media news-ranking system will become a reality, a lot of decisions still will be made by humans with their biases and interests, internet law expert Yair Cohen told RT.
Facebook is now planning to change the way it presents news to the users by introducing a ranking system aimed at defining what it deems “quality news.”
“We are, for the first time in the history of Facebook, taking a step to try to define what quality news looks like... I think we would agree that not all news is created equal, and this is a big step for us to begin thinking about that,” Facebook’s Head of News Partnerships Campbell Brown told the Recode Code Media conference in California on February 12.
The world’s biggest social network says its fight will help make it a more credible source for getting information and that it will prioritize the way it handles stories to prevent fake news. Co-founder Mark Zuckerberg said earlier that the company is going to rely on a user survey to help to determine which sources are “trustworthy.”
RT spoke to internet law expert and social solicitor Yair Cohen, who thinks that social media companies aren’t revealing the real criteria of a filter. [ link to www.rt.com (secure)] And who decides what is credible? They do! |
Citizen1111
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02/15/2018 08:28 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Facebook ‘quality news’ prioritization may result in ‘bias & won’t change quality’ "the company is going to rely on a user survey" (so they can manipulate it with their controlled BOTs) Grow Your Own |
SewDucky
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02/15/2018 08:28 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Facebook ‘quality news’ prioritization may result in ‘bias & won’t change quality’ My "quality" news on Facebook? Advertisements and a ton of Kardashian news.
I use it for college/work and a lot of it is fashion related, so we're not talking top tier breaking news to begin with.
Right now it's about Smucker's dog food having a euthanasia agent, Happy Meals being healthier and a new S. African president. None of which is actually quality.
I come here for real news. |
