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Facebook execs not happy own data showed it perpetuates right-wing echo chamber

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It perpetuates all eco chambers.

Not all echo chambers are equal

You are absolutely right. Every echo chamber has equal rights to believe it is better than the others.

Sounds like something someone who's in an eco chamber would say.

Their algorithm will create an echo chamber for every single person on their network. Why particularly do they care about creating “right-wing” echo chambers unless they themselves are biased in one way or another politically. Personally I find it disturbing and a bit dystopian that mega corporations get involved in politics at all and even worse, are EXPECTED to do so.

If they're not happy about it then why did they do that?

They’re not happy they were SHOWN to be an echo chamber amplification.

So, they made the authors take it out, then they could re-bury their heads in the sand and keep making all that sweet money from amplifying the echo chamber so well.

Presumably it was an unintended side effect of their algorithm

What I am gathering here is that they are not happy their algorithm appears to be politically impartial. Math equations and Computer algorithms don’t care about whatever BS propaganda is most popular unless they utilize ML models that become somehow trained only on that data. One of the reasons I love computers is they are pure of all emotion and bias. Code is code. It is whatever you make it to be. People have been saying facial recognition is biased but that’s only because the data being fed into the training models is unbalanced, aside from underdeveloped color/geometry analysis and extraction libraries. The point is code does not care about politics. If it appears to it’s because the code authors do not truly understand either what they created or the type of data they are feeding into the system.

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