The company dismissed the about 15 employees responsible for the section of the Trending Topics and replaced it with an algorithm that took less than two days to make a serious mistake , with the highlight of a canard .
Last Friday Facebook dismissed a team of editors responsible for the section of the Trending Topics on the social network . The seats were occupied by an algorithm that , consequently , has operated alone that part of the portal without any human supervision .
But two days sufficed to meddle the "foot in the ring ." Last Sunday , the system has highlighted a false report on the alleged dismissal of Megyn Kelly a journalist from Fox News, which would have been paid after it was discovered his true political affiliation to the more liberal wing of the Democratic Party. Although false , the company only noticed the error during Monday morning , when he removed the top of the content of the trends .
A Facebook spokesperson told Business Insider and explained the error with the waxen great number of likes and shares the news was , however, collected. However , the spokesman also said that the company is working to improve the performance of the algorithm with respect to filtering and satirical fake news , a process which of course includes human intervention.
" There are still people involved in this process to ensure that the topics that will appearing in the Trending section are quality , " the company wrote on its blog. "Our goal is to provide the Trending to as many people as possible , which would be difficult to achieve if valêssemos in only the summarization of topics at hand, " explained the network of Mark Zuckerberg .
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