HUGE win for non-Bias on Facebook News / Trending
Posted: Aug 29th, '16, 10:11
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http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/08/2 ... -coverage/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Facebook will no longer employ humans to write descriptions for items in its Trending section, which attracted controversy over allegations of political bias in May. Topics appearing in the Trending section will now appear solely as a short phrase or single word, with an indication of the number of people discussing it on the social network.
Quartz confirmed from multiple sources that Facebook has laid off the entire editorial staff on the Trending team—15-18 workers contracted through a third party. The Trending team will now be staffed entirely by engineers, who will work to check that topics and articles surfaced by the algorithms are newsworthy.