re Facebook has repeatedly trended fake news since firing its human editors

["David Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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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

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On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 12:33 PM, dfarber <dave () farber net <mailto:dave () farber net>> wrote:


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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.

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