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Are you saying you think human editors handpick what goes on billions of people’s Facebook feeds?



Wait but if you perform an extremely complex method of algorithmic curation, at some point isn’t the human designing the algorithm becoming an editor?


Did you actually read the article?


Did you read the comment I’m replying to?

> They have LITERAL human editors choosing which stories to put on the front page, just like the NYT, and they should be held liable for the content on their platforms just like legacy media is.

Do you think a Facebook feed is just like the New York Times?




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