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August 29, 2016 06:55 pm GMT

Facebooks Trending Topics algorithm already screwed up

In this May 5, 2016 file photo, Megyn Kelly poses for a portrait in New York. Donald Trump was a guest on Kellys first Fox network special, "Megyn Kelly Presents," which aired  May 17. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP, File)Well, that was fast. Three days after Facebook said it would remove the human editors who curate the Trending topics section and replace them with a purely algorithmic system, the company trended a fake news story about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly. The mistake seems like an easily avoidable one — the story on Kelly, which claimed that she had been booted from the conservative-leaning… Read More

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