Category archives: Facebook

Deep Text is “deep learning-based text understanding engine,” as Facebook puts it. Its ability to understand text like a human would is already being put to work in Facebook Messenger. And Facebook plans to take it a lot further.

Got a burning out-of-this-world question? It’s not too late to submit it to NASA. You never know, the billionaire Facebook founder might ask it for you.

Brace yourselves for neverending kitten streams.

The world’s largest social network said in a blogpost that it was introducing several changes, including elimination of a top-10 list of approved websites, more training and clearer guidelines to help human editors avoid ideological or political bias.
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‘It doesn’t make sense for our mission or our business to suppress political content,’ the Facebook CEO wrote.

‘The image corresponding to the emoticon may be an image of the user with an expression similar to the expression conveyed by the detected emoticon,’ the patent said.

Some 12 ‘conservative thought leaders’ will join the meeting with Zuckerberg on Wednesday, a Facebook spokesman said.

‘Facebook must answer these serious allegations and hold those responsible to account,’ senator writes in letter.

The social media network says no news outlets are prohibited from appearing on its trending topics list.

What kind of commitment, if any, does Facebook have to journalistic principles?