Must be getting it from a corporate source:
"Facebook draws fire on ‘related articles’ push" by Michael Kranish | Globe Staff May 04, 2014
A surprise awaited Facebook users who recently clicked on a link to read a story about Michelle Obama’s encounter with a 10-year-old girl whose father was jobless.
Facebook responded to the click by offering what it called “related articles.” These included one that alleged a Secret Service officer had found the president and his wife having “S*X in Oval Office,” and another that said “Barack has lost all control of Michelle” and was considering divorce.
A Facebook spokeswoman did not try to defend the content, much of which was clearly false, but instead said there was a simple explanation for why such stories are pushed on readers. In a word: algorithms.
I suppose it would be false seeing as Obama may be compromised in certain ways. It's amazing what perks and celebrity will make one do sometimes.
The stories, in other words, apparently are selected by Facebook based on mathematical calculations that rely on word association and the popularity of an article. No effort is made to vet or verify the content.
Facebook’s explanation, however, is drawing sharp criticism from experts who said the company should immediately suspend its practice of pushing so-called related articles to unsuspecting users unless it can come up with a system to ensure that they are credible.
“They have really screwed up,” said Emily Bell, director of Columbia Journalism School’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism. “If you are spreading false information, you have a serious problem on your hands. They shouldn’t be recommending stories until they have got it figured out.”
The decline of the corporate media is an example.
The incident is important, Bell said, because it illustrates the danger of having a company such as Facebook become one of the world’s most widespread purveyors of news and information.
The website relies on the idea that people trust stories posted by friends. But this recent practice, announced last December, is a departure from that ethos because no human being, much less a friend, vets related articles that are posted as a result of Facebook’s algorithms.
Moreover, the practice is bound to raise questions because it comes as Facebook last month announced that it is creating its version of a news service, called FB Newswire, based on social media information that it promises to verify with its partner, Storyful. These verified stories would be offered to news organizations around the world, further expanding Facebook’s influence on the way people get their news.
I'm not on Facebook and have no desire to be, so....
Storyful said on its website that it would ensure that stories are verified before they are posted on the news service, pledging that it would be “debunking false stories and myths.”
That is why I started the blog, yeah.
That only underscores questions about why Facebook does not similarly try to verify or debunk stories that it pushes to readers as related articles. Asked to respond, a Facebook official made clear that the company does not apply the same fact-checking standard when offering readers related stories on their news feed, such as the ones about the Obamas.
How strange. You have Facebook peddling outright feces, the new$paper a bull$hit narrative, while bloggers are left to bear the truth.
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It is not unusual, of course, for some Facebook users to link to outrageous or false stories, and no one expects them to be verified by the company. What makes this case different is that Facebook itself posts the supposedly related articles from sources that a user never chose to trust, in effect giving them Facebook’s imprimatur.
Facebook has, however, taken a very different line when advising businesses what to post on the news feed. On a corporate Web page, it says that the company’s goal for the news feed “is to show the right content to the right people at the right time” and “to show high-quality posts to people.” On April 10, the company said in a press release that it had introduced new algorithms to try to stop people who try to “game news feed to get more distribution than they normally would.”
The links that Facebook itself posted on the Michelle Obama story surfaced nearly three weeks after that announcement.
Facebook’s news feed — the stream of articles, images and other content recommended by a user’s friends that greet users who log on to the service — is one of the most prized commodities in the world of digital information.
And who would want to spoil that?
Guess you will just have to go back and read that government regurgitated garbage in the paper and believe!
An array of studies has shown that the news feed’s content can have a significant impact on public opinion and voter turnout. For example, a study published in the journal Nature found that a single, compelling News Feed message, indicating that a friend had voted, increased national turnout in 2010 by hundreds of thousands of voters.
This became a political piece-o-crap? Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Oh, sorry.
:-)
Just facing.
A reporter came across the Michelle Obama links by clicking on an Associated Press story that had been posted on Facebook by The Boston Globe.
Translation: Michael Kranish was fooling around on Facebook and he noticed it.
That story was legitimate; it told how Michelle Obama accepted a resume for the jobless father of a 10-year-old girl who met the presidential spouse at the White House.
As soon as the link to that story was clicked, however, Facebook offered what it called three related articles.
I only do it to give you background on what the Globe has said before -- and to point out the contradictions, obfuscations, and omissions.
The link to a story about the first couple’s supposed encounter in the Oval Office led to an article that was clearly fake and was filled with language not suitable for a family newspaper.
:-)
Well, all I can say about the language is every single obscenity applied during analysis is well-deserved and well-earned. I'm sorry I let the endless lies, elite supremacism, and insults of the regional flag$hit get to me to the point where I vent frustration and anger here in a screaming attempt to turn this Titanic called AmeriKa around. Sorry I cared and loved my nation so much.
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Google takes a different approach in compiling articles for its Google News service. In addition to using algorithms, the company said it requires news organizations to meet rigorous standards for inclusion.
I still use Google even though NSA and Israel get all the traffic. I just want to toss tons of misspelled searches with the term ", bostonglobe" into their record-keeping databases.
Within the world of politics and social media, any move by Facebook or other major sites is closely monitored because it can change the way millions of people get information....
I can't see your face and you can't see mine. Sorry.
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Considering all the scripted and staged hoaxes and false flags presented by the ma$$ media, from Syria and Sandy Hook to September 11, the Marathon Bombings, Fourth of July fireworks, and currently Nigeria, it's a safe deduction to consider anything that comes from them as agenda-pushing distortion if not outright fabrication.
Sorry, but the sooner you face up to it the better.
