Facebook ‘quality news’ prioritization may result in ‘bias & won’t change quality’

Although AI, machine-generated content removal in the social media news-ranking system will become a reality, a lot of decisions still will be made by humans with their biases and interests, internet law expert Yair Cohen told RT.

Facebook is now planning to change the way it presents news to the users by introducing a ranking system aimed at defining what it deems “quality news.”

“We are, for the first time in the history of Facebook, taking a step to try to define what quality news looks like… I think we would agree that not all news is created equal, and this is a big step for us to begin thinking about that,” Facebook’s Head of News Partnerships Campbell Brown told the Recode Code Media conference in California on February 12.