Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason

DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong in the internet and who's to blame.

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, number 164 May 20th 2016. I am Jason DeFilippo.

And I'm Brian Schultmeister. Good morning Brian. Morning.

Our afternoon.

I'm a little late. I'm in the central time zone. We're only an hour late. But I had to go get a

lawn mower because my new landlord yelled at me that the yard looks like shit. He's like,

dude, mothalon. I'm just moving two weeks ago. Okay. Well, two weeks, I guess. It rains here a

lot. You know, so it the grass grows. Right. The grass grows. We talked about how Facebook was

getting sort of in trouble because we found out that there wasn't actually an algorithm at all,

but a small group of highly underpaid journalism measures that were picking all the trending topics.

Yep. And Zuckerberg had to go sit down with a bunch of conservatives. That had to be fun.

That had to be fun. You know, normally in normal circumstances, like say, this is 20 years ago,

I would, well, there wasn't Facebook, but I would be, okay, fair enough. But the conservative

party is somewhat fallen apart. And there's about a chuv nut bags and crazy ass right wing people

these days. And you know, your, your Glenn Bex and your rush limbaughz. We look on them fondly

is almost somewhat sane compared to what we're normally getting these days. So again,

they've done about that. Yeah. So there's an article in salon that basically says Facebook doesn't

have a bias against the, the right. It has a bias against propaganda and lies.

Yeah. You know, when put that way, when you put it that way, it kind of makes a lot more sense.

I mean, if you think about it, it's like, are they supposed to put in trending topics, say like

three years ago, Barack Obama is a Muslim. Yeah. Or yeah. I mean, you know, they're not going to

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