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> Gabe Rivera, who runs a tech-news service called Techmeme that uses humans and algorithms to identify important stories ... wait a second, you mean a 3rd par

• mythrwy 9y ago
  Some conservatives are concerned about liberal viewpoints on Facebook and consider it a conspiracy. Some liberals are concerned about conservative viewpoints on Facebook and consider it a conspiracy. Almost everyone is concerned about "trash" when it takes a viewpoint they oppose, less concerned about trash when it promotes a viewpoint they agree with. Everyone thinks they know what "Fake News" is and most people who are vested think Google's algorithms should rank them higher and less deserving sites lower. As with most human opinion it's a matter of self interest and so is the parent article. Stripped of the holier than thou mantel it's whining about page ranking. Common whine. Lots of us have it. But most of us aren't nasty enough to seize on tragedy in order to make the point. Which is just another piece of evidence about the nature of old media and why it shouldn't have a monopoly on information. Personally I'm ok with semi-dumb pipes. I think in the aggregate it's better for all of us regardless of persuasion.