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                        1. Here's the thing about Trending Now and the Far/Alt/Conspiracy-Theory right... they are way more unified and better able to create trends.
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                        To be clear, to make a topic go 'Trending' requires a pattern of posting and perhaps particular people, but only 1,000 posts minimum.
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                      When an Alt Right topic goes Trending, I pop into Signal and this is what it looks like:
                      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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                    It's just dozens of identical posts or reposts between sites with the same headline and content.
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                  These two are arguably Leftist topics and you can see there's nothing like that. This isn't a criticism, but a note:
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                Note: The far right distrusts mainstream media. Conspiracy theorists distrust MSM. As a result they coalesce around fewer headlines.
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              That's not like... a criticism... it just *is*.
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            As a result a small group of conspiracy theorists, w/o even trying, can take over a legit topic like Sept. 11. Which is what keeps happening
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          Also a factor, conspiracy theorists are totally a market-targeting-ready customer vertical, so there's that too. bluechoochoo/774358422074425344
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        BTW, it looks like Facebook didn't want to flush the algorithm this time, so it just altered the topic.
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      If you were worried about Facebook's bias, subtly altering topics that create the Trending SERPs is way worse than human editor bias BTW
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    Somewhat related: "half-baked quiche" is my new fav descriptor for buggy software. slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/08/how_facebook_s_trending_news_feature_went_from_messy_to_disastrous.html
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      Also, for those of us paying attention, that Siri joke has been at the top of the last 3 Apple Trending Topics mashable.com/2016/09/09/facebook-trending-topics-sept-11/#e_F_Dr0vVaqm
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        Maybe not the tippy top, but way up there every time.
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          Anyway, the bigger problem isn't that Facebook is presenting a 9/11 conspiracy, it's that people keep freaking sharing one.
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            The inevitable problem of social trends is people are more likely to be malicious or foolish in clusters of the type that screw analysis
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