As soon as Facebook abolishes the trend's manual selection and automates it with algorithmic complete control it delivers hoax articles as soon as possible

On Facebook, the "trend" function that picks up the topic of the topic now has been changed from manual selection by the editor to automatic sorting using the algorithm. However, just three days after changing to a policy to eliminate humans, we are committing a major blunder to display fake news on top of the trend.

Three days after removing human editors, Facebook is already trending fake news - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/08/29/a-fake-headline-about-megyn-kelly-was-trending-on-facebook/

The trend of Facebook was changed from manual sorting to automatic extraction by algorithm from August 26, 2016.In May 2016, facebook officials and editors of Facebook received complaints saying "conservative news was arbitrarily excluded in topic selection on Facebook trend"After denying that such an editing policy does not exist,Publish site list used for topic selectionWe tried to ensure the neutrality of the trend function such as doing.

Due to this series of riots, we thought that we wanted neutrality for Facebook to be stronger, and we thought that we had to make sure there was no room for arbitrary operation, Facebook took all 19 of the staff who picked the topic at trends Then, on August 26, 2016 announced to fully automate the topic selection work, its operation began.

However, according to The Washington Post, the phrase "Megyn Kelly" appeared on the top trend on August 29, 2016 three days after the operation started with the new policy. Megyn Kelly is known as the main caster of Fox News.


Although the phrase of the trend is able to confirm the contents by mouse over, the one displayed in "Megyn Kelly" is "Megyn Kelly castor of Fox News supports Hillary · Clinton It can be made to descend the program because of that. " This topic,Conjective article written based on speculation posted on The Conservative 101 postIt is contrary to the fact that it is.


Topics that differ from this fact were posted on the trend top for several hours until it was removed from the list around 9:30 AM on August 29th. According to Facebook, in topic selection of trends, we mainly adopt algorithms that emphasize "the number of comments" and "momentum" for that content. For this reason, it seems that you have chosen hoaxes that do not have evidence that spreads rapidly as a topic of topics. Facebook has deleted the topic by admitting that the information posted on the trend is contrary to facts, but we have not changed the policy of automatically extracting the topic selection with the algorithm. Facebook seems to be required to further improve the algorithm in the operation of the trend function.