We can’t know whether Facebook is to blame for Trump's win.

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Summary:

This article seems to suggest, in the passage about filter bubbles, that user behavior and the algorithm are two distinct things. The trouble isn't whether bubbles are determined by one or the other, but that the two are enmeshed in the News Feed -- we just don't understand the how of that meshing, in all its complexity.

Link:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/11/11/we_can_t_know_whether_facebook_is_to_blame_for_trump_s_win.html?wpsrc=sh_all_mob_tw_top

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facebook algorithms public sphere filter bubbles research election

Date tagged:

11/12/2016, 10:00

Date published:

11/12/2016, 05:00