riordan/newsfeels

News Feels in News Feeds

News Feels (in News Feeds)

A still-hypothetical project to build a pipeline for aggregating political memes from Facebook.

Background Reading

• Inside Facebook’s (Totally Insane, Unintentionally Gigantic, Hyperpartisan) Political-Media Machine

How it'd work

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Computation

• Text acquisition: Luckily these things appear to be fairly OCR-able
• Face (ID) classification: Spot the face, tag the face. I think there's good coverage for politicians in many face training DBS. If so we'll have to aggregate.

Goals

1. Its an infrastructure: let this run as a service that's easy to set up and use as part of another project
2. Its really-well documented: Do you ust want "All The Facebook Memes" on your computer? Great - thats straightforward. Do you want to use this for an in-depth image and content analysis pipeline? Also incredibly straightfoward.
3. Can run as a hosted service for others
4. Doesn't violate anyone's ToS / IP rights