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Like it or not, tech now has a huge, huge place in society. A tweak in Facebook's algorithm could easily decide an election (I'm not saying it has, but it defin
by untog 10y ago
Like it or not, tech now has a huge, huge place in society. A tweak in Facebook's algorithm could easily decide an election (I'm not saying it has, but it definitely could).
For many people on HN, their work has the potential to have social implications in a way that was never the case twenty years ago. I for one am glad to see stories like this posted to HN, as I think engineers that make things like the algorithms that decide news feeds have very valuable input.
- sambe 10y agoRight, sure. I'm absolutely not surprised that people want to talk about the role of Facebook in society, or fake news, or the algorithms used. And much of that has been covered recently in other front-page articles. Some of them have been interesting to me, some haven't, I definitely won't complain if there are more of them. However, this particular article doesn't provide any interesting commentary on Facebook algorithms, its role in society or fake news. It's borderline content-free and I find that puzzling. Snowden says we should be wary of getting our news from a single source. Did this add something to any of the subjects you mention?