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Facebook Algorithm Replaces Trending Editors
- The Guardian, Tuesday, August 30, 2016 7 AM
Just months after the discovery that Facebook’s “trending” news module was curated and tweaked by human beings, the company has eliminated its editors and left the algorithm to do its job. The results so far are a disaster, including the fully automated Facebook trending module that pushed out a false story about Fox News host Megyn Kelly.
