Facebook: Algorithms Are ‘Trending’ Over People
Move over, humans: The machines are taking over, at least when it comes to populating Facebook’s Trending feature.
Move over, humans: The machines are taking over, at least when it comes to populating Facebook’s Trending feature.
The social network announced in a Newsroom post Friday that descriptions for Trending topics are being eliminated, removing the burden of writing descriptions for those Trending topics from its employees.
Users will now see a list of Trending topics, and hovering over them or clicking on them will bring users to content on those topics.
Humans are not out of the picture altogether, as Facebook wrote in the Newsroom post:
There are still people involved in this process to ensure that the topics that appear in Trending remain high-quality–for example, confirming that a topic is tied to a current news event in the real world.
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