After being accused of political bias in its trending news picks, Facebook returned to a purely algorithmic feed. Within hours, the machine picked a gross fake-news hatebait item claiming Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly was being forced out of the network, thereby forcing a human being to remove it from the trending feed. Bias!
Facebook returns trending picks to mechanical feed only to see total garbage float to top
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Fox News ends its love affair with hydroxychloroquine
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Leaked Twitter demo shows red banners to indicate lies and disinformation under tweets
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Fake news network stole from legit sites, flooded Google News and Alerts. Report blames NASDAQ & Thomson Reuters ex-employees.
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