Title: Facebook apologises over 'cruel' Year in Review clips
Summary:
This article is about how the
social network, Facebook apologised after it showed one user a photograph of
his recently-deceased daughter in its ‘Year in Review’ feature; many others had
similar complaints such as dead dog, boyfriends house burning down and a dead
fathers ashes.
Facts/Phrases:
Ø “Yes,
my year looked like that. True enough. My year looked like the now-absent face
of my little girl. It was still unkind to remind me so forcefully,” he
wrote in a post titled “Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty”.
Opinion:
In my opinion, this shows how
Facebook’s reliance on algorithms and formulas to make the site and app better
has actually just caused many more inconveniences.
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