TECH PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY Facebook and Twitter "algorithms" are MACHINE LEARNING (ML) models. But they use PEOPLE to train their models. Like a kid that "learns", these are trained. If/when Congress holds hearing on tech bias you will hear a lot about how these companies "do not target conservatives". What they aren't going to tell you is they ARE, but it's the ML models doing their thing, making decisions ON THEIR OWN based on what they've been taught.

Simply put: I'm a research scientist at MetaMind, acquired by Salesforce, where I poke datasets with the entropy stick and complain about deep neural networks converging too slowly. I graduated from Sydney University (BIT with First Class Honours & the University Medal) and Harvard University (Master of Science in Computational Science and Engineering). Before MetaMind, I was an engineer at the non-profit Common Crawl where I archived billions of web pages per month, the first employee at Grok Learning, data scientist at Freelancer.com, prodded Google App Engine at Google Sydney, and have been a tutor at the National Computer Science School for over half a decade.