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AS YOU MAY HAVE noticed on your travels around the internet, Facebook has an algorithm that recommends ‘related’ articles and videos after you click on a link.
Most of the time the ‘related content’ box that pops up underneath contains just that.
Friday 8 November, 2024
Friday 8 November, 2024
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Facebook's 'related' algorithm made quite a serious slip up today
AS YOU MAY HAVE noticed on your travels around the internet, Facebook has an algorithm that recommends ‘related’ articles and videos after you click on a link.
Most of the time the ‘related content’ box that pops up underneath contains just that.
But they don’t always get it right, as Twitter user Leo Ó Seachnasaigh observed today.
Yes, there’s Facebook recommending R Kelly’s I Believe I Can Fly as ideal ‘related’ content to a horrific story about ISIS.
Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear.
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