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Director of Tow Centre for Digital Journalism at Columbia J School. ebell@columbia.edu. Lives in the Internet Haystack.

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  1. May 13

    "Why Public Health Concerns for Global Spread of Zika Virus Means Rio’s 2016 Olympic Games Must Not Proceed"

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  3. May 12

    Meet Parsey McParseface, a whimsically named computer program that helps machines understand written English.
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  4. May 12

    I am doing my bit by only finishing 1 out of every 10 books I think about writing

    Stop 'hysterical mass publishing' . A waste of everyone's time. Good piece.
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  5. May 12

    NO WE'RE NOT

    I think media people are still underestimating how much room Facebook has to become more powerful and influential in possibly alarming ways.
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  6. May 12

    A good outline on how Facebook's trending topics are selected: A combo of algorithm, editors and personalization.

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  7. May 12

    Meanwhile

    Azealia Banks suspended from Twitter following racist attack on Zayn Malik
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  8. May 12

    companies which have influence in the public sphere inevitably come freighted with civic concerns - as they should

    Facebook might seem like some sort of public institution but it’s a private company that provides a nominally free service to many people
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  9. May 12

    Key Point 'its core business is in humanities and social sciences.' Yes . (don't tell )

    Facebook tries so hard to recruit engineers and to make some blue box just right. But it's core business is in humanities & social sciences.
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  10. May 12

    Just go and read 's timeline

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  11. May 12

    Facebook cannot escape humanities since it can't escape adopting values, nor social sciences since it judges rank in our social networks.

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  12. May 12

    Look, these are hard questions. The issues Facebook needs to grapple with are what humanity has grappled with for .. millennia. Seriously.

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  13. May 12

    So sensible , build better filters is the top line , which needs people and computers

    Problems are thorny & no magic solution. They really need smart social science & journalism folks working with algorithm folks.
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  14. May 12

    So story reveals essentially changed internal policy at Facebook - they were at least responsive to intelligent criticism

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  15. May 12

    Facebook now being schooled in how quickly media stories run out of control ...laws of rational reporting no longer apply

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  16. May 12

    Yes. The man is right ..collaborative filtering is the answer

    I voted algorithms but honestly I want a combination (hence my Storyful days). And algorithm coders are editors/curators/trainers
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  17. May 12

    Facebook should study the BBC. Every single one of the Corporation's major crises happened around the content - and mishandling the blowback

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  19. May 12

    Now that Guardian has written about it, Facebook published its "how we pick Trending news winners" guidelines.

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  20. May 12

    Facebook wants at least 60 US trends, because more trending stories gives them more clicks. hmm. cc

    1:20 PM - 12 May 2016 · Details
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  22. May 11

    A written guarantee from Nick Clegg saying he wouldn't see the Dalai Lama ...? ...that's one for the National Archive

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  23. May 11

    Norman Fowler though *is * the voice of sense : 'stop arsing around with it' I think he said

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  24. May 11

    I am fairly sure no one here is worrying much about Facebook Trending

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  25. May 11

    So...is the future of the BBC entirely to be decided by men ?

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  26. May 11

    'The danger of crossing Ambridge fans' .. gets to the heart of the public service broadcasting debate

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  27. May 11

    'Incredibly people still go to this kind of thing, despite the fact it's completely fucking unwatchable' . Philomena Cunk ❤️

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  28. May 11

    Do readers who write letters self select as being less aware of algorithmic personalization I wonder?

    Based on reader letters, a huge number of people don't even know their Facebook feed is filtered in any way.
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  29. May 11

    We have a 'Death Lab' . Good to know..

    Should we stop burying the dead? Researchers at ’s DeathLab may have the answer
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  31. May 10

    Answer contained in the question

    How stoned is too stoned to drive?
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  32. May 10

    Is it now better for Facebook to say it is a publisher, or stick with the 'platform' designation to avoid other liabilities?

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  33. May 10

    Facebook trending story long way down on Facebook Trending

    7:16 PM - 10 May 2016 · Details
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  34. May 10

    So Facebook editing its trending subjects is *literally* the biggest story in the US, according to the radio news.....good grief

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  36. May 10

    also early Facebook investor & still on the board.

    PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel to serve as Trump delegate:
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  37. May 10

    At the end of last year I talked to the remarkable about journalism and the media . Here it is:

    Snowden interview: Why the media isn't doing its job
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  38. May 10

    This =>

    Easier to worry about "Facebook editors selected this"—it has a journalism analogy— but harder to think about complex computational filters.
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  39. May 10

    Look, every journalist and editor and NGO and activist out there is thinking HOW DO I MATCH MY STUFF TO FACEBOOK'S ALGORITHM? Trending? Meh.

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  40. May 10

    Arguably, it constricted some range. Since companies hold keys to access, will you publish things they don't like?

    "Big Data... has not produced a coincidental explosion of research opportunities for the typical scholar"
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  41. May 10

    Congrats Professor - who in my book should be emeritus everything, up to and including a deity

    "That's _Professor_ Bozo to you, pal" - an announcement:
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  42. May 10

    The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, where rats capture and threaten to cook a kitten in a suet crust is particularly good

    Into the dystopian world of Beatrix Potter | Kathryn Hughes
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  43. May 10

    And it is not just Facebook...remember Twitter trending hooha around ....? Getting to the top of Google News results? Same issue

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  44. May 10

    Also bookmark this series by - it is really worth reading

    In my first piece as a private citizen, I take a look at Facebook's impact on the media in a four part series:
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  45. May 10

    Re Facobook it is not *just* transparency delivering the news. It might start there, but it is the wider issue of performance discrimination

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  46. May 9

    Everyone who enjoyed the "Watermelon-Session" at chaired by might find this piece quite helpful.

    Like everything else, video is not THE answer to journalism's problems. Good piece on the numbers.
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  47. May 9

    Yes ...couple of examples in here :

    Did FB not do an experiment to see if they could influence the mood of people by changing the news feed?
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  48. May 9

    If Facebook treat being editorial as a shady covert activity as reporting has highlighted - then people more alarmed than if open

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  49. May 9

    bigger impact if you suppress 'sites' rather than 'stories'? ie. a genuine story on wrong site might be suppressed?

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  50. May 9

    Thanks for RT - I tweeted (and wrote about) the inevitable politicization of platforms back in January

    Old tweet relevant to the Facebook news editors story:
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