After being accused of political bias in its trending news picks, Facebook returned to a purely algorithmic feed. Within hours, the machine picked a gross fake-news hatebait item claiming Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly was being forced out of the network, thereby forcing a human being to remove it from the trending feed. Bias!
Facebook returns trending picks to mechanical feed only to see total garbage float to top
REUTERS, Dado Ruvic, 2016
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