Posted on 05/12/2016 11:20:22 AM PDT by Fhios
But the documents show that the company relies heavily on the intervention of a small editorial team to determine what makes its "trending module" headlines -- the list of news topics that shows up on the side of the browser window on Facebook's desktop version. The company backed away from a pure-algorithm approach in 2014 after criticism that it had not included enough coverage of unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, in users' feeds. The guidelines show human intervention -- and therefore editorial decisions -- at almost every stage of Facebook's trending news operation, a team that at one time was as few as 12 people.
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Hence my mention of that private party hosted by President Obama on February 17, 2011 in San Francisco that had in attendance the CEO's of Apple, Cisco Systems, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Oracle, Twitter and Yahoo!. (That dinner party also had Obama's most trusted adviser, Valerie Jarrett, in attendance.) Is it possible that during the off-the-record dinner conversation that the President got the CEO's of these companies heavily involved in "tweaking" the data algorithms for search and discovery to favor Left-leaning topics on the Internet? If so, then these companies are complicit in government censorship for suppressing political opponents, something that violates First Amendment free speech rights.
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