Political Bias at Facebook? - The New York Times

More important may be the fact that, in Facebook’s algorithm-driven world, the scandal is happening in a corner where humans were in charge. The Facebook employees also seem to have believed they were being observed, Gizmodo said in a different story, so that they might someday be replaced by software to write the trending briefs. That wouldn’t be too surprising: There is already software that writes sports and breaking disaster stories, and Facebook is good at revising algorithms and building products on a big scale. That means the outcome of this scandal, regardless of whether bias is confirmed, may well be more robo journalism, as Facebook strives to look impartial by letting computers do the work.