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Friday, 13 May 2016

Quotations from humans add a human touch

Chris Mohney imagines Zuckerberg response to inquiry over allegations Facebook curators suppressed right-wing trending news: Gizmodo’s Michael Nunez reported on Monday on a former unnamed Facebook employee’s allegations that conservative news stories and sources were suppressed by curators working to teach Facebook’s algorithms, even though such stories “were organically trending among the site’s users.” The US Senate Commerce Committee, led by a Republican, launched an inquiry into the allegations on Tuesday. Facebook replied the same day to say it is investigating the matter and will address the Senators’ questions. On Friday, former Tumblr editor-in-chief, Chris Mohney, who we noted last October as the author of what has been called “perhaps the greatest, most poetic exit [redacted]-you in Internet history,” tweeted what he imagines such an inquiry may entail:

INTERVIEWER: So no humans have touched your algorithms?
ZUCKERBERG: [nictitating membranes flick briefly over eyeballs] Correct

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