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Bad Algorithms Don't Explain Facebook's Ad Issues
- Slate, Thursday, September 21, 2017 6:14 PM
To blame Facebook’s failure to police its ad operations on bad algorithms is missing the point, argues Slate’s Will Oremus. “In fact, the problems with Facebook’s ad tool are not mysterious or complicated, and they aren’t buried in layers of machine-learning classifiers or neural nets,” he writes. “Rather, they’re the predictable outcome of rudimentary automation coupled with bad human behavior and a lack of careful oversight.”
