Earlier this year, Gizmodo reported that the Facebook Trending Topics staff were biased against conservatives in their story selection. On Sunday night, I asked Facebook whether a human editor approved the topic before it trended, and how it plans to keep this from happening in the future it had not responded by press time.įor Facebook’s now out-of-work contractors, the irony must be painful. Yet with the assistance of Facebook’s algorithmic editors, it garnered 200,000 likes. The story, hosted by, was completely inaccurate: Kelly has not endorsed Clinton, and she has not been fired by Fox. Driving the trend was an article claiming that Kelly had been fired by Fox News for supporting Hillary Clinton. From Sunday evening to early Monday morning, Facebook allowed the topic “Megyn Kelly” to trend. If so, they’re not doing their jobs very well. “There are still people involved in this process to ensure that the topics that appear in Trending remain high-quality-for example, confirming that a topic is tied to a current news event in the real world,” said a release from the company on Friday. Yet the company assured users that it would still remain discerning. The company also laid off the 26 employees who had run the feature-19 curators and seven copyeditors-with little warning on Friday, according to Quartz. President Donald Trump attends a rally in Warren, Michigan, U.S., October 1, 2022.A graphic from Facebook explaining the new and old featureįacebook’s decision to simplify the feature seemed like an attempt to wriggle out of editorial responsibility: What had been a messy human-led process would now become an algorithm-guided one. Instead, he has been posting frequently on his own Truth Social site, which he launched after the suspensions.įormer U.S. ![]() Twitter also reinstated Trump’s account last year after Elon Musk took over the company, but the former president has thus far chosen not to tweet. “We carefully evaluated the continued risk of real-world violence, while balancing the chance for voters to hear equally from major national candidates in the run up to an election,” they wrote. Trump channel is no longer restricted and can upload new content.” YouTube, in a tweet, announced earlier Friday that, “Starting today, the Donald J. The company also said it would be adding “new guardrails” to ensure there are no “repeat offenders” who violate its rules, even if they are political candidates or world leaders.įacebook, the world’s largest social media site, had been both a publicly tool and a crucial source of fundraising revenue for both of Trump’s previous campaigns. READ MORE: Tucker Carlson’s scorn for Trump revealed in defamation lawsuit filings “The public should be able to hear what their politicians are saying - the good, the bad and the ugly - so that they can make informed choices at the ballot box,” Nick Clegg, Meta’s vice president of global affairs, wrote at the time. His access was restored to Facebook and Instagram on Feb. ![]() Capitol in a bid to halt the peaceful transition of power. ![]() 6 insurrection, when Trump’s supporters violently stormed the U.S. Trump posted the same clip on YouTube, which announced Friday that it, too, was welcoming him back.įacebook parent Meta had said in January that it would be restoring Trump ’s personal account in the coming weeks, ending the suspension it imposed in the wake of the Jan. He also shared an old video clip in which he said: “Sorry to keep you waiting. “I’M BACK!” Trump posted on the site weeks after his personal account was reactivated. NEW YORK (AP) - Former President Donald Trump has returned to Facebook after a more than two-year ban.
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