[cpeterso]

> Under Facebook’s old guidelines, news curators stuck to a list of trusted media sources. Neither of these sources were on that list.

And if they are replacing humans with algorithms, why ditch the existing list of trusted media sources? They are orthogonal changes. The trusted sources list would have kept the algorithms on a tighter leash.

[kevincox]

Great point. Something definitely seems odd about this mistake.

[jegutman]

Yellow journalism is a politicized issue in 2016.