What the Facebook papers reveal | In Focus
In Focus by The Hindu
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Is There Any Possibility of a Public Control Over Algorithms?
The papers show that face books priortise engagement to a level that causes harm, and that it values anger as a response very highly. A researcher who took on the avatar of a new user from kerla shown misinformation and violent content in a matter of days. Are there any laws that are in the making, or any moves towards this? So i think that tem one thing which i'll say, is that algoritms are just computer problems and instructions. These are not some entities written by somebody else. We write them, and he developers write them. I have written them. And in to tis world, there's infinite scalability of am age and zero cost of personal
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