They call it confirmation bias. We’ve all seen it, yet those that know it exists will forever be in the minority. In fact, confirmation bias may have swayed the election in Trump’s favor by eliciting emotion that closely aligned with the pissed off alt-right’s perception of both candidates. Facebook, which still claims it isn’t a media company, is the fuel that feeds the flame. It’s Facebook, after all, that unceremoniously cut ties with human editors in favor of algorithms. If you thought algorithms were the answer, you were quickly proven wrong. Story after story details their shortcomings as Facebook continues…
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