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Facebook returns trending picks to mechanical feed only to see total garbage float to top

REUTERS, Dado Ruvic, 2016

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!

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