Echobox Weekly Digest: Facebook’s algorithm, labelling fake news and an AI making rum

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Echobox Insights

2 min readJan 27, 2017

Twelve of the week’s most interesting stories on artificial intelligence, journalism and social media, curated by the team behind the world’s first AI that understands the meaning of content.

This week: Facebook Trending algorithm changes, a remedy for fake news and a rum created by IBM’s Watson supercomputer.

Artificial intelligence

An AI is figuring out how to beat humans at designing new AI

Who programs the programmers? Soon enough, it might not be people.

techcrunch.com

AI spots skin cancer as well as a trained doctor

The programme was trained using 130,000 images of moles and rashes.

www.theverge.com

Journalism

Fake news' power to influence shrinks with a contextual warning

This is not fake news.

techcrunch.com

Publishers made only 14% of revenue from distributed content

Distributing content on third party platforms is failing to pay off.

digiday.com

Bloomberg is innovating to reclaim homepage traffic

How Bloomberg and others are dealing with declining home page traffic.

digiday.com

Facebook updates

Trending feed now with more info, less personalisation

Starting Wednesday, US feed will include sources appear the same to all users in the country.

www.digitaltrends.com

Facebook replaces its inbox with the web version of Messenger

Just under two years ago, Facebook introduced a web interface for its private chat application, Messenger.

techcrunch.com

Facebook is changing how it talks about privacy

Is Facebook making it easier to keep your information private?

mashable.com

Twitter updates

Twitter crosses enemy lines in search of new friends

Twitter has joined Instagram - only six years late to the game.

mashable.com

Twitter just can't let go of Vine, launches an online archive

A ghost of the recently shut down video platform is to live on.

techcrunch.com

Social media & startups

US middle-aged beat millennials in time spent on social media

Get off Facebook, Dad. No, really.

mashable.com

Deliveroo Plus offers £9 subscription for takeout addicts

Subscribers no longer pay delivery fees. Annual deals are also available.

www.engadget.com

And for the AI news of the week, you can now buy the perfect rum — made by IBM’s Watson.

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Echobox Weekly Digest: Facebook’s algorithm, labelling fake news and an AI making rum

An AI is figuring out how to beat humans at designing new AI

Who programs the programmers? Soon enough, it might not be people.

AI spots skin cancer as well as a trained doctor

The programme was trained using 130,000 images of moles and rashes.

Fake news' power to influence shrinks with a contextual warning

This is not fake news.

Publishers made only 14% of revenue from distributed content

Distributing content on third party platforms is failing to pay off.

Bloomberg is innovating to reclaim homepage traffic

How Bloomberg and others are dealing with declining home page traffic.

Trending feed now with more info, less personalisation

Starting Wednesday, US feed will include sources appear the same to all users in the country.

Facebook replaces its inbox with the web version of Messenger

Just under two years ago, Facebook introduced a web interface for its private chat application, Messenger.

Facebook is changing how it talks about privacy

Is Facebook making it easier to keep your information private?

Twitter crosses enemy lines in search of new friends

Twitter has joined Instagram - only six years late to the game.

Twitter just can't let go of Vine, launches an online archive

A ghost of the recently shut down video platform is to live on.

US middle-aged beat millennials in time spent on social media

Get off Facebook, Dad. No, really.

Deliveroo Plus offers £9 subscription for takeout addicts

Subscribers no longer pay delivery fees. Annual deals are also available.

Written by Sebastian Huempfer