yahoo : One-third of people want less news in their Facebook feeds

One-third of people want less news in their Facebook feeds

This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Digital Media Briefing" subscribers.To learn more and subscribe, please click here.Thirty-three percent of Facebook users want to see fewer publisher articles in their feeds, according to a US survey of 526 random participants by social engagement platform Spot.IM.

Facebook 'Trending' algorithm takes a crazy turn, shows fake news

On August 26, 2016, in a blog post Facebook announced to let a computer algorithm decide which news stories to share with users, and eliminate human editors in an effort to be more transparent.Last week, Facebook ditched its human editors, whose potential bias was reflected on its popular "Trending" feature, and deployed an algorithm to handle the entire job.However, within three days of its implementation, the fully automated "Trending" module flagged up a fake article.

Facebook Trending: your news is now gathered by robots

Social media / Facebook /Facebook Trending: your news is now gathered by robotsShareThe big blue social media giant is changing the way its Facebook Trending feature works.And while that doesn't mean much to those who don't get their news from Facebook, it does signal the resurgence of the algorithm.What am I talking about?

Facebook battles with fake news after dropping human editors for algorithm

Facebook announced over the weekend 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.The headline, which was visible to anyone who hovered over Megyn Kelly's name on the Trending list, refers to the Fox News personality as a "traitor" and claims that the US cable channel has "Kick(ed) her out for backing Hillary."