Facebook Trending Topics AI On The Wrong Track 3 Days After Overhaul
Social networking giant Facebook faced a hail of outcry in May when a Gizmodo report said the company was regularly suppressing conservative news from making it to the "Trending" section on the website.The website issued a denial at the time, but three months later, Facebook announced last week it was reducing the number of human news curators and was automating most of the process for choosing stories for the "Trending" section by assigning the task to an algorithm.And in something like a geometric progression nightmare, only three days after it made the change, a fake news story made it past its algorithm and sat on top of the "Trending" section till a review identified it as fraudulent and it was removed it.
Facebook apologises and removes fake Megyn Kelly article from Trending list
Just days after Facebook announced changes to its Trending Topics section, which now relies more heavily on machine algorithm rather than humans, the tech firm became embroiled in an embarrassing error which led to a fake article on Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly trending on the social media platform on 29 August.Facebook has since apologised for the error and removed the article from its Trending list.The fake article, which claimed that Kelly was "on the way out" from the conservative-leaning media giant because she "seems to be a closet liberal who actually wants Hillary to win", was reportedly trending for a few hours on Facebook before it was removed.
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