{"id":1289,"date":"2016-10-31T22:33:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T22:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/standing-rock-pipeline-protest-absent-from-facebook-trends.html"},"modified":"2016-10-31T22:33:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T22:33:14","slug":"standing-rock-pipeline-protest-absent-from-facebook-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/standing-rock-pipeline-protest-absent-from-facebook-trends.html","title":{"rendered":"Standing Rock pipeline protest absent from Facebook Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A massive social media protest is exploding on Facebook, not Twitter for a change, yet Facebook\u2019s dehumanized Trending system wasn\u2019t picking it up. People around the country are checking in on Facebook at the Standing Rock Native American Reservation in an effort to supposedly<\/a> hinder local Morton County police from targeting protesters attending in person to fight an oil pipeline through historic tribal lands.<\/p>\n

[Update 3:15pm PT: About two hours after we published this post, Facebook is finally showing a Trend for #NoDAPL, which stands for \u201cNo Dakota Access Pipeline\u201d. The fact that it says 790,000 people are talking about the Trend, between 2X and 100X the chatter of other Facebook Trends, shows just how late Facebook was to surfacing the lastest in the Standing Rock protest saga. This article has been edited to discuss the trend\u2019s absence in the past tense.]<\/p>\n

The Morton County\u2019s sheriff has denied using Facebook for surveillance<\/a>. Still,\u00a0the social media protest has proceeded to bring concerns about the environmental and cultural impact of the pipeline to national attention. While some users have taken to masking their posts explaining their absentee checkins by using incorrect spellings like \u201cRanding Rock\u201d, there\u2019s still more chatter about the exact term than many other Facebook Trends.<\/p>\n

Even if Facebook showed related Trends in past weeks, or was trying to suppress the spread of the check-in story since police may not be doing surveillance on protesters with geotargeting, it\u2019s still a huge\u00a0topic of conversation. Including a Trend highlighting a story that discusses the surveillance denial by the sheriff or why people are checking in could have provided important context for users.<\/p>\n

\"facebook_standing_rock\"<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a> went as far to publish a story headlined \u201cWhy Your Facebook Friends Are Checking In To Standing Rock\u201d. Yet \u201cStanding Rock\u201d, \u201cNative Americans\u201d, \u201cpipeline\u201d, \u201cMissouri River\u201d, and related terms didn\u2019t show up as Facebook Trends to any users until long after the check-in protest began over the weekend. Until around when we first published this story, related terms weren\u2019t even in the \u201cEmerging Trends\u201d pool that Facebook internally surfaces trends from, which can be seen through Facebook\u2019s data tool for journalists called Signal.<\/p>\n

Standing Rock wasn\u2019t a Trend despite Facebook\u2019s own search tool showing \u201cStanding Rock Indian Reservation\u201d was a popular search with over 86,000 people talking about it. But you\u2019d only know that if you searched for it. Standing Rock and related terms have much more chatter than other topics Facebook was showing as Trending, such as actor Bryan Cranston saying he\u2019ll move to Canada if Trump is elected.<\/p>\n

Since Facebook removed its human curators, it switched the Trends design to remove the immediately-visible descriptions of the trends and now only shows the trending term itself, in this case #NoDAPL. Since there\u2019s no way to guess what that terms means, only users who click on the Trend or hover over it to see the related news link would learn about the pipeline protest.<\/p>\n

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Facebook\u2019s Chris Cox and Sheryl Sandberg speak about Facebook being a tech company with responsibilities to news readers at the WSJDLive conferece<\/p>\n

The failure to identify a huge, viral protest that\u2019s built off of Facebook\u2019s own location check-in feature shows how badly Facebook needs to overhaul Trends. Facebook also failed to surface any trends related to the police shooting of Terence Crutcher until over a day after the news became a topic of national discussion.<\/p>\n

Facebook continues to deny it\u2019s a media company<\/a>, repeatedly labeling itself a technology platform. While that argument may have been bolstered by its decision to fire all its human Trend curators<\/a>, that move has given way to multiple instances of glaring errors in Facebook\u2019s Trends. It\u2019s highlighted fake news several times<\/a> that a human curator could have easily debunked, while omitting or being slow to pick up on critically important news stories surrounding human rights issues like the Standing Rock protest.<\/p>\n

Facebook\u2019s COO Sheryl Sandberg and CPO Chris Cox again reiterated this month that Facebook is a tech company, not a media company, but admitted it has responsibilities<\/a> to its readers since it\u2019s become such a prolific distribution channel for news. Ensuring the day\u2019s most important protests aren\u2019t hidden behind frivolous celebrity dreck should be one of those responsibilities.<\/p>\n

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