“Facebook will no longer employ humans to write descriptions for items in its Trending section, which attracted controversy over allegations of political bias in May.”
Read: Facebook is trying to get rid of bias in Trending news by getting rid of humans
“Facebook is open sourcing a set of computer vision software tools that can identify both the variety and the shape of objects within photos.”
Read: Facebook is giving away the software it uses to understand objects in photos
“Not long ago I watched a video in my Facebook timeline—I don’t remember what it was, only that it was something very sad. Whatever it was, I felt overwhelmed, and I put my head down on the bed beside my computer and did about sixty seconds of crying.”
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“Computers are people, too. It’s something we’ve been thinking about over at Technical.ly Brooklyn HQ for a bit and it’s come up in the news recently a few times, most notably last month with the Facebook Trending Topic Imbroglio of 2016.”
Read: ‘Mathwashing,’ Facebook and the zeitgeist of data worship
“Facebook has developed a new AI called DeepText that it claims can understand what people are writing about with “near-human accuracy.” Oh, and it can do that several thousand times per second in over 20 languages.”
Read: Facebook says its new AI is almost as good as humans at understanding context
“The controversy about the human curators behind Facebook Trends has grown, since the allegations made last week by Gizmodo.”
Read: Algorithms, clickworkers, and the befuddled fury around Facebook Trends
“Facebook activated its Safety Check after a suicide bomber in Pakistan left scores dead. But the feature malfunctioned, prompting users thousands of miles from the blast to tell friends they were safe.”
“Facebook depends on increasingly sophisticated ad targeting to make money, so it’s unsurprising to learn that Facebook’s new “reactions” feature will benefit advertisers in a variety of ways.”
Read: Could Cops Use Facebook Reactions to Target Criminals?
“Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had to scold his staff after discovering that unidentified employees recently crossed out Black Lives Matter and replaced it with “all lives matter” on the walls at Facebook headquarters — multiple times.”
Read: Mark Zuckerberg memo tells employees to stop crossing out Black Lives Matter on company walls