You use the greatest social network for your daily update? Lately Facebook has been using bots to display articles in their section 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 seems that the problem still exists: The Washington Post, following the Facebook Trending Stories from 31 August to September 22, discovered five fake stories and three grossly inaccurate reports from the automated social networking system.
You might be wondering why Facebook isn't hiring people to deal with it theme; 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 censoring conservative news and Wikileaks links showing the 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.
