>My summary of the article: An algorithm designed by Google engineers to promote upcoming stories does exactly what it was supposed to do, and people who don't understand why Google employees did not manually review just one out of one hundred thousand things that the search engine indexed that day are suprised.

That is not entirely correct, big dotcoms do outsource a lot of such mechanical Turk work to outsourcing companies that do such work, and they do prefer to contract ones in places without much contact to English speaking work to prevent mass backlash.

>https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/

A lot of times when such companies claim that something is done by some voodoo magic "smart algorithm," that claim is a lie.