You use the biggest social network for your daily life information; Τελευταία το Facebook χρησιμοποιεί bots σαν υπεύθυνα προβολής άρθρων στην ενότητα των Trending Stories. It was a decision that met with a lot of backlash when it was found that the algorithms turned up a fake story by Fox News' Megyn Kelly within days of its implementation.
Several weeks later, it appears the problem persists: The Washington Post's monitoring of Facebook's Trending Stories from Aug. 31 through Sept. 22 found five fake stories, as well as three grossly inaccurate reports from the automated system of the social network.
Are you wondering why Facebook isn't hiring people to deal with the issue? Because the human factor is not objective. The company already tried it, with a group of editors before installing its bots, but fired them all in May for censorship of conservative news and Wikileaks links showing DNC emails.
Ultimately, it seems that social networking algorithms are simply not so reliable. This is especially important if you think about how many are informed by the social network, believing that they are watching reliable sources of information.
The problem, as computer scientist Walter Quattrociocchi told the WP, is that "when Facebook selectively injects fake news into these highly personalized feeds, it creates polarization among its users."
Mention that fake stories are creating more and more conspiracy theorists by offering them "documentation."
Thus "innocent" information from social networks could mean danger to societies in general.
