<p dir="ltr">@Brian , thanks for sharing, thats what i have been advocating for all along...more open and intelligent metrics to alleviate this emerging issue.</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24-Nov-2016 1:07 PM, "Brian Muhia via kictanet" <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">A more fundamental problem is metrics that Facebook uses, that are aligned with its business goals, which are simple, and aren't aligned with user needs, which are complex. A recent presentation discussed these issues here: "Is Anything Worth Maximising?" <a href="http://nxhx.org/maximizing/" target="_blank">http://nxhx.org/maximizing/</a></p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 24 Nov 2016, 13:00 Sidney Ochieng via kictanet, <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg">Facebook’s Content Blocking Sends Some Very Mixed Messages <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602974/facebooks-content-blocking-sends-some-very-mixed-messages/amp/" class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://www.technologyreview.<wbr>com/s/602974/facebooks-<wbr>content-blocking-sends-some-<wbr>very-mixed-messages/amp/</a><br class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><br class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"></div>They have the power, the question becomes do you want them to use it?</div><div class="gmail_extra m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><br class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg">On 24 November 2016 at 12:49, Sidney Ochieng <span dir="ltr" class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:sidney.ochieng@gmail.com" class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg" target="_blank">sidney.ochieng@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg">China Uses US Concern Over Fake News To Push For More Control Of The Internet | Techdirt <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161122/11501136116/china-uses-us-concern-over-fake-news-to-push-more-control-internet.shtml" class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://www.techdirt.com/<wbr>articles/20161122/11501136116/<wbr>china-uses-us-concern-over-<wbr>fake-news-to-push-more-<wbr>control-internet.shtml</a><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg">This is some what predictable but still worrying</div></div><div class="gmail_extra m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><br class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><div class="m_-1018093564939047903m_2852374876024525028h5 m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg">On 23 November 2016 at 17:50, Ronald Ojino via kictanet <span dir="ltr" class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>></span> wrote:<br class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><div class="m_-1018093564939047903m_2852374876024525028h5 m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><br class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"></div>In my opinion, as long as you are a news delivery channel, you are expected to uphold high standards.<div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg">Locally, we make choices on whether to read gutter press or news from mainstream media houses.</div><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg">However the delivery channel is expected to at least sift through the content shared using intelligent algorithms</div><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg">in order to guard against misinformation.</div><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg">We can’t change what people’s perceptions but we as techies can come up with more open and intelligent algorithms that </div><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg">would at least minimize such issues.</div><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg">R.O</div><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><blockquote type="cite" class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><div class="m_-1018093564939047903m_2852374876024525028m_3786078335674783938h5 m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg">On Nov 23, 2016, at 3:48 PM, Mose Karanja via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-1018093564939047903m_2852374876024525028m_3786078335674783938m_7908504822620007609Apple-interchange-newline m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"></div></div><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><div class="m_-1018093564939047903m_2852374876024525028m_3786078335674783938h5 m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg">Most honest line I have heard in a long time: </div><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><br class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"></div>"On fake news I think it's pretty sanctimonious of us to assume people are idiots and don't know that they are reading fake news.”<div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><br class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg">I don’t think there is an algorithm for that - yet. </div><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><br class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg">Feedly as an aggregator is great. I was toying with the idea of ‘peeping’ into other people’s feeds so that if you have aggregated news on tech, hate speech, Kenya… and I am a Burkinabe who would want to know what is happening in Kenya on hate speech, I can ‘peep’ into your feed and get authentic verified news from the source. </div><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><br class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg">Most RSS feeds don’t have this feature and I think it is what ‘follow’ / ‘like’ concepts on most Social Media platforms work on. </div><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><br class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg">-M<br class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><blockquote type="cite" class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg">On 23 Nov 2016, at 15:41, Sidney Ochieng <<a href="mailto:sidney.ochieng@gmail.com" class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg" target="_blank">sidney.ochieng@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-1018093564939047903m_2852374876024525028m_3786078335674783938m_7908504822620007609Apple-interchange-newline m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important" class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg">On fake news I think it's pretty sanctimonious of us to assume people are idiots and don't know that they are reading fake news. </span></div></blockquote></div><br class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg"><div class="m_-1018093564939047903gmail_msg">
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