Facebook’s Trending Topics algorithm already screwed up

 Well, that was fast. Three days after Facebook said it would remove the human editors who curate the Trending topics section and replace them with a purely algorithmic system, the company trended a fake news story about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly. The mistake seems like an easily avoidable one — the story on Kelly, which claimed that she had been booted from the conservative-leaning… Read More

Source: Techcrunch.com