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Facebook replaces human editors with McChicken romp, fake Fox-News-outing AI bots • The Register

On Friday, Facebook announced changes to its method of picking trending news stories to put on the front page of people's feeds.It's taking humans out of the equation and using algorithms instead – and the results were not pretty.Facebook's Trending news section is part of Mark Zuckerberg's plan to make the social network the world's newspaper.

In firing human editors, Facebook has lost the fight against fake news

Two days after Facebook announced it was replacing the humans that write the Trending Topics descriptions with robots, a fake article about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly appeared in its list of trending stories.On Friday, Facebook announced that in a bid to reduce bias it would make the Trending feature more automated and laid off up to 26 contractors hired to write and edit the short descriptions that accompanied each trend.On Sunday a story headlined "Breaking: Fox News Exposes Traitor Megyn Kelly, Kicks Her Out for Backing Hillary" found its way into the list of trending stories – despite the fact that it's not true.

After removing human editors Facebook battles with fake news

After removing human editors Facebook battles with fake newsReuters Fox News reporter Megyn Kelly is not leaving the company.Facebook announced last week that humans would no longer write descriptions for its Trending topics list, handing over even more responsibility to the already-powerful algorithm.But just days after the policy change, Facebook's algorithm chose a very bad, factually incorrect headline to explain to its news-hungry users why Megyn Kelly was trending.