To have done so DURING the election would have created accusations of bias. This was always going to be a big story post-election. Stories about troll factories and the Macedonian clickbait troll town were out before…
Leaving aside the Fake News controversy, given the number of fake accounts polluting their social graph, I would say yes, FB does suck at ML.
Another place where Facebook's failure to detect fakeness has proved costly is in their social graph. A lot of sites moved away from comments platforms like Disqus to Facebook in the hope that the quality of discourse…
To have done so DURING the election would have created accusations of bias. This was always going to be a big story post-election. Stories about troll factories and the Macedonian clickbait troll town were out before…
Leaving aside the Fake News controversy, given the number of fake accounts polluting their social graph, I would say yes, FB does suck at ML.
Another place where Facebook's failure to detect fakeness has proved costly is in their social graph. A lot of sites moved away from comments platforms like Disqus to Facebook in the hope that the quality of discourse…