Facebook fires human editors for robots & it all goes wrong...

Following Facebook’s announcement on Friday that employees who worked on the ‘trending’ section of their website would be made redundant – with the algorithm taking over – a false story and a pornographic link, amongst others, were published.

Facebook wrote in a blog post announcing the news last week: “Our goal is to enable trending for as many people as possible, which would be hard to do if we relied solely on summarising topics by hand.