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We’re designing systems to protect against machine learning bias

In the wake of recent acts of extreme brutality and injustice and mass protests, we’re examining our role in perpetuating systems of inequality. We are responsible for our impact as a tech company, as a news reader, and, acutely, as a developer of machine learning algorithms for Leo, your AI research assistant. 

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are powerful tools that allow Leo to read thousands of articles published every day and prioritize a top selection based on the topics, organizations, and trends that matter to you. However, if not designed intentionally, these tools run the risk of reinforcing harmful cultural biases.

Bias sneaks into machine learning algorithms by way of incomplete or imbalanced training data. Without realizing it, we miss or overrepresent certain variables and the algorithm learns the wrong information, often with dangerous outcomes.

In the case of Leo, we risk introducing bias when teaching him broad topics such as “leadership.” Leo learns these topics by finding common themes in sets of articles curated by the Feedly team. For the topic “leadership,” Leo might pick out themes like strong management skills and building a supportive team culture. However, if more articles about male leaders than female are published or added to the training set, Leo might also learn that being male is a quality of leadership. Tracking which themes Leo learns is an essential part of topic modeling that helps prevent us from reinforcing our biases or those of the article author or publisher.

It’s on us as developers to be deliberate and transparent about the way we account for bias in our training process. With that in mind, we’re excited to share what we’re working on to reduce bias at the most crucial stage: the training data

Break down silos

Collaboration among folks from diverse backgrounds helps us account for our blind spots. However, to make that collaboration possible, we need an accessible tool. The new topic modeler is that tool — designed so that anyone in the Feedly community can help curate a dataset to train Leo about topics they’re passionate about.

A peek inside the topic modeler tool

The topic modeler takes advantage of the Feedly UI we know and love to allow multiple users to search for articles for the training set and review Leo’s learning progress. Our goal is to connect with experts in a variety of fields to build robust topics that represent our entire community — not just the engineering team.

Put to the test: the diversity topic

Recently, two Feedly team members with no machine learning experience and who are interested in diversity issues road tested the new tool to redesign our diversity topic. The result is a topic that is rich and nuanced: rather than focusing only on the buzzword “diversity,” Leo will be looking for thousands of related keywords, including representation, inclusion, bias, discrimination, equal rights, and intersectionality. Now you can train Leo to track diversity and inclusion progress in your industry and find essential information for how to build and maintain inclusive work cultures and hiring practices.

Leo prioritizes diversity in your Science feed

Leo continuously learns

Topic modeling is not the only way to collaborate. Any Feedly user can help Leo learn. When Leo is wrong, you can use the ‘Less Like This’ down arrow button to let him know that an article he’s prioritized isn’t about a particular subject.

Leo will also seek your feedback occasionally via a prompt at the top of an article. If you see “Is this article about [topic]?,” let him know! Your feedback gets incorporated into Leo’s training set to fill in any gaps we missed and strengthen his understanding.

Your feedback helps fine-tune Leo’s understanding

Join the movement

Beyond in-app feedback, feel free to reach out via email or join the Feedly Community Slack channel, especially if you have a topic for Leo to learn about. This is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to addressing and dismantling systemic bias. We take our role as content mediators seriously and know that we are indebted to those who have fought for so long to bring these issues to our attention. Leo is listening and learning.

New Feature
Pull content from Twitter accounts, hashtags, Lists, and searches directly into your Feedly feeds

Twitter is full of insightful news and trends. But integrating those insights into your research flow can be overwhelming and time-consuming. We hear from users all the time that you want to be able to bring parts of Twitter into your Feedly feeds for researching and monitoring trends.Today, we’re excited to share the new Twitter Integration for Feedly!You can follow Twitter accounts, hashtags, Lists, and searches. Even more exciting, Feedly can pull content from linked articles directly into your feeds. And Leo, your AI research assistant, can cut through the noise and prioritize or mute certain topics to make sure you only see tweets with essential information for your research.

One of my favorite features is the Feedly Twitter integration. I can stay informed about events and conversations I might otherwise miss, without it affecting how I use Twitter and cluttering up my feed.Jon Henshaw, Founder of Coywolf

Get started with the Feedly Twitter integrationGet your tweets in Feedly and let Leo filter out the noise. Now available to all users in our new Pro+ plan.GET TWITTER INTEGRATION

Follow Twitter accounts in Feedly

Search for any Twitter handle in the ‘Twitter feeds’ tab, just like you would with any other source on Feedly.

When you search for an account, you’ll see two options: ‘Tweets’ and ‘Tweets with Links’.

Follow ‘Tweets’ to see all tweets from an account.

Follow ‘Tweets with Links’ to follow only tweets from this account that link out to articles, videos, pictures, or any other type of external content. This lets you skip any tweets without external content.

Choosing ‘Tweets with Links’ is great because:

If possible, we’ll extract the content of linked articles and make the content appear inline, just like any other article in your feeds.

You can create a Leo priority on both the tweet and the content of the article when it’s extracted. We’ll tell you more about Leo priorities in a second.

Search for an account, and then choose whether you want to follow all tweets, or only tweets that link to external content.

Scan tweets — and the articles they link to — in your feeds

Tweets are aggregated into your feeds with the rest of your content. When you click on a tweet that links to an article, the article will open in Feedly.

Tweets are aggregated into your feeds with the rest of your content.

Read and annotate linked articles directly in your Feedly

We’ll pull the content of linked articles inline so you can read and annotate them in your Feedly. Add notes or highlights without having to click away to Twitter or another site to read or save the article.

When a tweet links to an article, you can open the article right in Feedly.

I can interact with tweets the same way I would with articles by saving, highlighting, and pushing them to other services.Jon Henshaw, Founder of Coywolf

Train Leo to prioritize specific topics, companies, or business events

This is where it gets powerful. Leo, your AI research assistant, helps cut through the noise of tweets in your feeds and find what’s essential to you. Click ‘Train Leo’ to create a priority.

Ask Leo to prioritize topics, like “Tik Tok”, and then use AND, OR, and NOT to refine your priority.

Leo reads both the content of the tweet and any linked content to decide whether or not a tweet should be prioritized.

Train Leo to mute tweets that aren’t important to you

Just like any other piece of content in Feedly, you can train Leo to mute tweets about topics you don’t care about, so you only see essential news in your feeds.

Leo reads both the content of the tweet and any linked content to decide whether or not to mute a tweet.

You can ask Leo to mute any content related to a topic, like COVID-19.

Follow Twitter hashtags in Feedly

You can follow all tweets mentioning a specific hashtag. You’ll see two options, just like when following an account: ‘Tweets’, and ‘Tweets with Links’.If you follow the hashtag #b2bmarketing, for example, you can choose:

#b2bmarketing Tweets: all tweets will be pulled into your feeds#b2bmarketing Tweets with Links: only tweets about #b2bmarketing that link to external content will be pulled into your feeds

Follow all tweets with #b2bmarketing, or choose to follow only tweets that link to other content.

Follow Twitter Lists in Feedly

You can also follow Twitter Lists, which are curated groups of Twitter accounts.

Follow both your own Lists and other users’ public Lists. Just paste the link of the Twitter List directly into the search bar in the ‘Twitter feeds’ tab.

Copy the URL of the List you want to follow, and paste it directly into Feedly.

Follow Twitter searches, or create advanced search queries to follow in Feedly

Type your search directly into the search bar in Feedly, and the integration will continually pull updated results of the search into your feed.

Here’s a helpful list of Twitter’s standard operators that you can use to refine your search.

Type your search directly into Feedly to add it as a source. Use operators like -filter:retweets to remove retweets from the results.

You can also use the advanced search options on Twitter. Once you’ve created an advanced search in Twitter, click ‘Search’ and then paste the link to the advanced search directly into the search bar in your Feedly.

I was struggling to search through my bookmarked tweets on Twitter. But now I can follow my favorite Twitter users, star articles from Twitter and add them to boards. They are easily searchable and I can even annotate and highlight parts.David, professor at a large public university

Get started with the Feedly Twitter integrationGet your tweets in Feedly and let Leo filter out the noise. Now available to all users in our new Pro+ plan.GET TWITTER INTEGRATION

FAQs about the Feedly Twitter integration

How do I get started with the Twitter integration? What can I follow?Anyone on a Pro+, Business, or Enterprise plan has access to the Twitter integration. Once you’ve connected your account to Twitter (go to the ‘Twitter feeds’ tab in Feedly to set it up) you can follow accounts, hashtags, searches, or Lists.

Can I follow protected Twitter accounts?Yes. If the Twitter account you want to follow is protected, just make sure the Twitter account you’re using to connect to Feedly follows the protected account.

How do I remove retweets?Right now, it’s not possible to explicitly remove retweets. If you want to remove retweets from your feeds, our recommendation is to hide retweets from inside your Twitter account. Here’s how

Do I need to follow both ‘Tweets’ and ‘Tweets with links’ for an account or hashtag?You only need to follow one. Choose ‘Tweets’ and you’ll get all tweets, with and without links.Choose ‘Tweets with Links’ to get only tweets that link to external content, like articles or videos.

Is it possible to filter a search further once I follow a hashtag?Yes. Our advice is to first use Twitter’s advanced search to refine your search. Then, once you’re satisfied with the results, copy and paste the URL of the search in Feedly to create a new source.

Can I publish to Twitter from Feedly?When you connect your Feedly to your Twitter account, this is a read-only connection allowing your Feedly to read tweets. Feedly doesn’t write any tweets. To share insights from Feedly to Twitter, click the Twitter icon at the top of any article to generate a tweet and share your insights.

Can I follow my own Twitter account?Yes. If you want to follow the timeline you see when you go to twitter.com, then type “twitter.com/” into the search bar. The timeline of the Twitter account that’s connected to your Feedly account will be pulled into your feeds.If you want to see your own tweets, you can follow yourself — just type your Twitter username into the search bar.

Will every single tweet from that hashtag get pulled into my feeds?Yes. If you add a hashtag as a source, all the tweets generated for that hashtag get pulled into your feed. If you’re getting too much noise from a hashtag, we recommend training Leo to prioritize or mute certain keywords or topics so that you only see what’s most important to you.

What’s the limit for articles from Twitter per day?Feedly has a limit of 5,000 articles per day from each Twitter source.

You might also be interested inIntroducing Feedly for CybersecurityStreamline your open-source intelligence.Meet Leo, Your AI Research AssistantKeeping up with topics and trends you care about within a sea of articles can be overwhelming and time-consuming.

Save time and find the biopharma content you need

The amount of information published every day in the biopharma space is overwhelming and hard to skim through.

Today we’re excited to announce the launch of Biopharma Search Mode, a tool that allows you to save time in your research flow. You can drill down into the specific content you want, beyond your existing feeds and sources.

With Biopharma Search Mode, you can find articles you would have not found otherwise, discover new sources and save the pieces of content you find interesting. This feature is available to all Biopharma Enterprise users.

TRY FEEDLY FOR BIOPHARMA

Let’s walk through an example of how you could use Biopharma Search Mode to find articles you need. Imagine you lead an R&D team at a biotech company and you want to learn about the latest breakthroughs related to cell therapies.

Create your search query

First, click on the search icon in the left navigation bar, and select ‘Search Across the Web’.

Type in a topic you want to research and select Biopharma Mode. When you search in Biopharma Mode, you’re searching across sources we’ve preselected based on biopharma users’ favorite industry-specific sources, and you’ll get less noise.

Go to the Power Search and select the Biopharma Mode

You’re in control

Ask Leo to search for “cell therapy” in any of the biopharma sources we curated for you. Create a search query and select “cell therapy” as the topic.

You can refine your query and combine topics with +AND and +OR.

You can create even more targeted queries by selecting the types of publications you want on the left-hand side: pick from 300 science journals, 800 biopharma trade publications, 80 regulatory sources, or 350 healthtech blogs.

For example, use +AND to focus on news related to cell therapies and biopharma companies, and select the Biopharma Business type of publications only.

Refine the search query to cell therapy and biopharma companies among trade publications

Go further and refine your search by excluding certain topics, or by selecting ‘Title Only’ vs ‘Entire Content’. Find more information about how to do this here.

Break down silos

Team Boards are the private spaces where you and your team can save the best content you discover in Feedly or on the web. You can bookmark, organize, and annotate content to share insights across your team and organization.Once you’ve discovered a great new article, you can save it to a board and share it with the rest of your team via daily newsletters, Slack and Microsoft Teams notifications, or push it to other apps using our API.

Save the most insightful content to your boards

You can also click on the source name and see the other articles that the source has published. This is a powerful way to find new sources for niche topics. If the content is highly relevant, you can use the ‘Follow’ button to add that new source to one of your Team Feeds and receive the next articles published by that source.

Streamline your biopharma intelligence

We’re excited to see how your team will declutter your feeds and dig deeper into the biopharma news that matters to you. Sign up today and discover Feedly for Biopharma.

TRY feedly for biopharma

If you’re interested in learning more about the Feedly for Biopharma roadmap, you can book a demo call by clicking on the button above.

New Feature
Pull content from Twitter accounts, hashtags, Lists, and searches directly into your Feedly feeds

Twitter is full of insightful news and trends. But integrating those insights into your research flow can be overwhelming and time-consuming. We hear from users all the time that you want to be able to bring parts of Twitter into your Feedly feeds for researching and monitoring trends.Today, we’re excited to share the new Twitter Integration for Feedly!You can follow Twitter accounts, hashtags, Lists, and searches. Even more exciting, Feedly can pull content from linked articles directly into your feeds. And Leo, your AI research assistant, can cut through the noise and prioritize or mute certain topics to make sure you only see tweets with essential information for your research.

One of my favorite features is the Feedly Twitter integration. I can stay informed about events and conversations I might otherwise miss, without it affecting how I use Twitter and cluttering up my feed.Jon Henshaw, Founder of Coywolf

Get started with the Feedly Twitter integrationGet your tweets in Feedly and let Leo filter out the noise. Now available to all users in our new Pro+ plan.GET TWITTER INTEGRATION

Follow Twitter accounts in Feedly

Search for any Twitter handle in the ‘Twitter feeds’ tab, just like you would with any other source on Feedly.

When you search for an account, you’ll see two options: ‘Tweets’ and ‘Tweets with Links’.

Follow ‘Tweets’ to see all tweets from an account.

Follow ‘Tweets with Links’ to follow only tweets from this account that link out to articles, videos, pictures, or any other type of external content. This lets you skip any tweets without external content.

Choosing ‘Tweets with Links’ is great because:

If possible, we’ll extract the content of linked articles and make the content appear inline, just like any other article in your feeds.

You can create a Leo priority on both the tweet and the content of the article when it’s extracted. We’ll tell you more about Leo priorities in a second.

Search for an account, and then choose whether you want to follow all tweets, or only tweets that link to external content.

Scan tweets — and the articles they link to — in your feeds

Tweets are aggregated into your feeds with the rest of your content. When you click on a tweet that links to an article, the article will open in Feedly.

Tweets are aggregated into your feeds with the rest of your content.

Read and annotate linked articles directly in your Feedly

We’ll pull the content of linked articles inline so you can read and annotate them in your Feedly. Add notes or highlights without having to click away to Twitter or another site to read or save the article.

When a tweet links to an article, you can open the article right in Feedly.

I can interact with tweets the same way I would with articles by saving, highlighting, and pushing them to other services.Jon Henshaw, Founder of Coywolf

Train Leo to prioritize specific topics, companies, or business events

This is where it gets powerful. Leo, your AI research assistant, helps cut through the noise of tweets in your feeds and find what’s essential to you. Click ‘Train Leo’ to create a priority.

Ask Leo to prioritize topics, like “Tik Tok”, and then use AND, OR, and NOT to refine your priority.

Leo reads both the content of the tweet and any linked content to decide whether or not a tweet should be prioritized.

Train Leo to mute tweets that aren’t important to you

Just like any other piece of content in Feedly, you can train Leo to mute tweets about topics you don’t care about, so you only see essential news in your feeds.

Leo reads both the content of the tweet and any linked content to decide whether or not to mute a tweet.

You can ask Leo to mute any content related to a topic, like COVID-19.

Follow Twitter hashtags in Feedly

You can follow all tweets mentioning a specific hashtag. You’ll see two options, just like when following an account: ‘Tweets’, and ‘Tweets with Links’.If you follow the hashtag #b2bmarketing, for example, you can choose:

#b2bmarketing Tweets: all tweets will be pulled into your feeds#b2bmarketing Tweets with Links: only tweets about #b2bmarketing that link to external content will be pulled into your feeds

Follow all tweets with #b2bmarketing, or choose to follow only tweets that link to other content.

Follow Twitter Lists in Feedly

You can also follow Twitter Lists, which are curated groups of Twitter accounts.

Follow both your own Lists and other users’ public Lists. Just paste the link of the Twitter List directly into the search bar in the ‘Twitter feeds’ tab.

Copy the URL of the List you want to follow, and paste it directly into Feedly.

Follow Twitter searches, or create advanced search queries to follow in Feedly

Type your search directly into the search bar in Feedly, and the integration will continually pull updated results of the search into your feed.

Here’s a helpful list of Twitter’s standard operators that you can use to refine your search.

Type your search directly into Feedly to add it as a source. Use operators like -filter:retweets to remove retweets from the results.

You can also use the advanced search options on Twitter. Once you’ve created an advanced search in Twitter, click ‘Search’ and then paste the link to the advanced search directly into the search bar in your Feedly.

I was struggling to search through my bookmarked tweets on Twitter. But now I can follow my favorite Twitter users, star articles from Twitter and add them to boards. They are easily searchable and I can even annotate and highlight parts.David, professor at a large public university

Get started with the Feedly Twitter integrationGet your tweets in Feedly and let Leo filter out the noise. Now available to all users in our new Pro+ plan.GET TWITTER INTEGRATION

FAQs about the Feedly Twitter integration

How do I get started with the Twitter integration? What can I follow?Anyone on a Pro+, Business, or Enterprise plan has access to the Twitter integration. Once you’ve connected your account to Twitter (go to the ‘Twitter feeds’ tab in Feedly to set it up) you can follow accounts, hashtags, searches, or Lists.

Can I follow protected Twitter accounts?Yes. If the Twitter account you want to follow is protected, just make sure the Twitter account you’re using to connect to Feedly follows the protected account.

How do I remove retweets?Right now, it’s not possible to explicitly remove retweets. If you want to remove retweets from your feeds, our recommendation is to hide retweets from inside your Twitter account. Here’s how

Do I need to follow both ‘Tweets’ and ‘Tweets with links’ for an account or hashtag?You only need to follow one. Choose ‘Tweets’ and you’ll get all tweets, with and without links.Choose ‘Tweets with Links’ to get only tweets that link to external content, like articles or videos.

Is it possible to filter a search further once I follow a hashtag?Yes. Our advice is to first use Twitter’s advanced search to refine your search. Then, once you’re satisfied with the results, copy and paste the URL of the search in Feedly to create a new source.

Can I publish to Twitter from Feedly?When you connect your Feedly to your Twitter account, this is a read-only connection allowing your Feedly to read tweets. Feedly doesn’t write any tweets. To share insights from Feedly to Twitter, click the Twitter icon at the top of any article to generate a tweet and share your insights.

Can I follow my own Twitter account?Yes. If you want to follow the timeline you see when you go to twitter.com, then type “twitter.com/” into the search bar. The timeline of the Twitter account that’s connected to your Feedly account will be pulled into your feeds.If you want to see your own tweets, you can follow yourself — just type your Twitter username into the search bar.

Will every single tweet from that hashtag get pulled into my feeds?Yes. If you add a hashtag as a source, all the tweets generated for that hashtag get pulled into your feed. If you’re getting too much noise from a hashtag, we recommend training Leo to prioritize or mute certain keywords or topics so that you only see what’s most important to you.

What’s the limit for articles from Twitter per day?Feedly has a limit of 5,000 articles per day from each Twitter source.

You might also be interested inIntroducing Feedly for CybersecurityStreamline your open-source intelligence.Meet Leo, Your AI Research AssistantKeeping up with topics and trends you care about within a sea of articles can be overwhelming and time-consuming.