You use the biggest social network for your daily life information; Lately Facebook has been using bots to display articles in the Trending Stories section. It was a decision that was met with considerable backlash when it was found that algorithms had surfaced a fake story by Fox News' Megyn Kelly within days of the application her.
Several weeks later, it appears the problem persists: H The Washington Post tracking Facebook's Trending Stories from August 31 to September 22 uncovered five fake stories, as well as three grossly inaccurate reports from the social network's automated system.
Are you wondering why Facebook isn't hiring people to deal with the issue? Because the human factor is not objective. The company has already tested this, with a group of editors before installation of its bots, but fired them all in May for censoring 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 the "innocent" information from social media networks it could mean danger to societies in general.
