Facebook would it be biased in its treatment of US political news? It is suspected that the Senate of the United States. By treatment is meant here before the commissioning of some more content than others. The Committee on Commerce, Science and Transport of the Senate (Republican majority) yesterday sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg following the publication by Gizmodo earlier this week of a polemical article.
The famous trending topics on Facebook, divisive overseas. (Source: Gizmodo)
Y demonstrates a former Facebook employee explains that the selection of ‘popular topics’ (called “trending topics”), a feature launched in January 2014, would not the fact that an algorithm. Sub course, a team of Facebook choose what are the most promising themes, and on criteria other than their popularity. He says the themes and content dear to American conservatives have been deliberately left to rot.
Embezzlement
“Any attempt on the part of social media is said neutral, censor or manipulate the content based on a political sensitivity, constitutes a breach of trust and laying odds with the values of an open Internet, “says Republican Senator John Trune, who chairs the Committee on trade, science and transport.
Facebook responded with the voice of Tom Stocky, vice president for research of the social network. Yes, says Facebook, a human ex-post validation does occur. But it only takes place to avoid duplicates, false information and prioritize those sourced.
Still, Mark Zuckerberg recently publicly criticized the action of Donald Trump on his comments on immigration . Facebook has publicly stated that he would conduct an audit of how the trending topics are selected, and act if a problem actually posed
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