Racist comments targeting politicians tripled since Meta relaxed its rules
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I can't believe the platform that worsened and spread the rhetoric that led to the genocide in Myanmar would also allow racist vitriol on its site.
That doesn't sound like the Facebook I know.
That doesn't sound like the Facebook I know.
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ubercurmudgeon
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The comparison of social media companies to drug dealers was missing one thing: the tendency of the latter to cut their supply with things like rat poison. Congratulations billionaires, in sucking up to Trump, you've completed the analogy.
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Back when this was happening in Myanmar it was because they totally couldn't find moderators who spoke the language; now it's because this behavior is by design.
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Since we've removed our anti-despicable-behavior policy we've seen despicable behaviour rise by 300%.
You can't see it right now, but this is my shocked face.
Edit to add: This is an inherent problem with any engagement based algorithm. Negative interactions fuel engagement, so if your algorithm is looking to promote the most engaging topics obviously the turds are going to float to the top of the bowl.
You can't see it right now, but this is my shocked face.
Edit to add: This is an inherent problem with any engagement based algorithm. Negative interactions fuel engagement, so if your algorithm is looking to promote the most engaging topics obviously the turds are going to float to the top of the bowl.
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Sounds like engagement is up!
(I left FB for my new years resolution a couple of years ago and I barely miss it. I wouldn't miss it at all if I could get my family to move to another platform.)
(I left FB for my new years resolution a couple of years ago and I barely miss it. I wouldn't miss it at all if I could get my family to move to another platform.)
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As a former Facebook employee (left in 2018), I enthusiastically recommend closing your account.
It only took a few weeks being off the site before I felt like I'd woken up from a long, ugly dream, and the idea of logging into it now just seems absurd to me.
It only took a few weeks being off the site before I felt like I'd woken up from a long, ugly dream, and the idea of logging into it now just seems absurd to me.
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Truly shocking, I tell you. Not like it's the coffee that fuels America every morning.
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I can only hope given how AI-pilled Zuckerdouche is that his AI furnace that's incinerating billions of dollars a year with no hope of ever generating a return ends up (figuratively) burning FB down.
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Is it just me, or does this seem to be very careful not to point out where most of it is coming from? Being very careful not to point out if one side has increased far more than the other, and very careful to not put context around the threats.
Almost like they're desperately trying to say "both sides are just as bad as each other."
Almost like they're desperately trying to say "both sides are just as bad as each other."
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Absolutely nobody is surprised by this result. I wonder if someday we’ll have compulsory education on how to healthily deal with negative comments and criticism online & in person. I mean, It took years and years but right now I can separate toxic vitriol from the actual valid criticism to my online comments and in person criticism and not take anything personally. I know violent comments are a whole different level and can construed real danger, but most of it are just empty words.
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When the platform is overtly taking advantage of and amplifying the negative aspects of the human condition then yes, I will put some blame on them.
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I had the same thought. When I read the sentence about townhalls for example, my first thought was, hold on, it is mainly GOP politicians not holding them. When they do, most times it is a shouting match and quite ugly to the politician.
In comparison, I've seen Bernie/AOC in deep red states hold townhalls where you know some have to be republican and they are ... normal. Talarico, Platner, Andrews (red states) all hold townhalls and they are reasonably calm so my view is that the rise in hate would lean more towards MAGA/GOP threads and politics.
If you can't win with reason, scream bullshit loudly.
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Not surprising. Same thing happened on Twitter.
https://theconversation.com/hate-sp...-after-elon-musk-takeover-new-research-249603
And in the US electoral map when the 5-4 majority started gutting the Voting Rights Act back in 2013:
https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/...eased-after-court-weakened-voting-rights-act/
Which they have recently pretty much finished off in Louisiana v. Callais to uphold a racist gerrymander.
Gosh, how surprising that when we systematically dismantle the rules that backstop racism and hatred, we get a flood of open racism and hatred!
https://theconversation.com/hate-sp...-after-elon-musk-takeover-new-research-249603
And in the US electoral map when the 5-4 majority started gutting the Voting Rights Act back in 2013:
https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/...eased-after-court-weakened-voting-rights-act/
Which they have recently pretty much finished off in Louisiana v. Callais to uphold a racist gerrymander.
Gosh, how surprising that when we systematically dismantle the rules that backstop racism and hatred, we get a flood of open racism and hatred!
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This seems like the correction to not voting how your constinuents want, or against their best interests, that is actually needed though. Sure threats are not good and we should be able to have civil discourse, but it is clear that at least for some representatives that has not worked and their constinuants feel the only way to have their voice heard is to resort to extremes. Maybe if representatives voted in ways that didn't directly hurt the people they work for the threats would reduce some?
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...when they don't curb overtly anti-social behavior, yes. And even more so when they encourage it.
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Even stopped fascist clocks are right on occasion.*
* Once or twice a day, depending on whether their 12- or 24-hour models.
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They are running backwards, occassionally correct but for the wrong reason.
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My Facebook account - which I walked away from at least a year ago for several reasons - was recently and permanently shuttered by the company for inactivity. Sometimes the trash takes itself out.
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JFC, and I thought the obvious clone of my friend's account trying spam me with chat invites not getting banned was bad enough.
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