Facebook was embarrassed over the weekend after it replaced its human editors with an algorithm, which then allowed a fake news story to appear on the site’s “trending” sidebar. It gets worse. Trending on Facebook yesterday was an x-rated video of a man performing a sex act on a McDonald’s McChicken sandwich – choking the McChicken, if you will. Previously Facebook’s trending stories were monitored by a team of real people, who could filter out fowl content like this. This weekend the algorithm was set loose to decide what should trend. With predictable results. I’m not loving it.
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£440m Aid For Green Schemes in Wealthy Countries | Sun
Derek Hatton Readmitted to Labour After 34 Years | Mirror
EU Agrees No Deal Clearing Arrangements | Evening Standard
Honda Closure Nothing to do With Brexit | Julian Jessop
The Trade Union Club for Liberal Cosmopolitans | UnHerd
Meghan Falls for Faux Injustice | ConWoman
TIG: Striking Parallels With Rise of SDP | Daniel Finkelstein
Chaos of New Independent Group | Alex Wickham
Corporate Governance Rule Changes “Deeply Flawed” | FT
Will ‘The Independent Group’ Work? | Mark Wallace
Fox Pushing For Big No-Deal Tariff Cuts | Times
More Than a Beautiful Game | UnHerd
Corbyn Stubbornly Reiterates He is Never Wrong | Independent
TIG Will Fade into Irrelevance, Just Like the SDP | Labour Leave
£440m Aid For Green Schemes in Wealthy Countries | Sun
Derek Hatton Readmitted to Labour After 34 Years | Mirror
EU Agrees No Deal Clearing Arrangements | Evening Standard
Honda Closure Nothing to do With Brexit | Julian Jessop
The Trade Union Club for Liberal Cosmopolitans | UnHerd
Meghan Falls for Faux Injustice | ConWoman
TIG: Striking Parallels With Rise of SDP | Daniel Finkelstein
Chaos of New Independent Group | Alex Wickham
Corporate Governance Rule Changes “Deeply Flawed” | FT
Will ‘The Independent Group’ Work? | Mark Wallace
Fox Pushing For Big No-Deal Tariff Cuts | Times