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Facebook’s Trending Topics and the growing power of the funnel filter
Curated:
12/05/2016 from
www.niemanlab.org/2016/05/newsonomics-facebooks-trending-topics-and-the-growing-power-of-the-funnel-filter/
my notes ( ? )
Ironically, with the widening of (national) news choices that the Internet has spawned, we’re depending on fewer pipelines of news. It’s a narrowing of the filter funnel...t as troubling as the filter bubbles that used to occupy our concerns, but likely more potent. As those pipelines narrow, necessarily, the decision on what is news, and what is important in news, inevitably falls to fewer people and their buddy bots... the diversity of judgment about it narrows ...
decisions are being made by some combination of humans and algorithms. And who programs those algorithms? Humans.... The bent isn’t just liberal or conservative. It threatens to become more insidious, as groupthink risks becoming invisibly commonplace.
decisions are being made by some combination of humans and algorithms. And who programs those algorithms? Humans.... The bent isn’t just liberal or conservative. It threatens to become more insidious, as groupthink risks becoming invisibly commonplace.
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