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> Facebook employs hundreds of young Filipinos - some with limited English skills - to remove offensive and terror related material from the site 1984 was wron
by kartan 9y ago
> Facebook employs hundreds of young Filipinos - some with limited English skills - to remove offensive and terror related material from the site
1984 was wrong on this one. The censorship doesn't come from an all knowledgable goberment, but it comes from low-cost teenagers.
What impact is going to have into the global communications to introduce such a specific bias?
What impact is going to have in the psychology of these young employees, that already live in a violent country?
- bananaXbanana 9y agoThese people don't make any individual decision. They have a word document in front of them with official guidelines for any case.
- kartan 9y ago> These people don't make any individual decision. Yes, they have. If it were possible to fully automate the task, Facebook will not hire humans. From the article: "The moderators have to check posts that have been flagged up and make a snap judgement on whether they should be taken down.". Some videos are probably easy to identify, but the world is a scale of grays.
- tajen 9y agoWill young Philippinos empathize with terrorist causes after reading too much?
- kartan 9y ago> Will young Philippinos empathize with terrorist causes after reading too much? I didn't say anything about terrorism. I was talking about "One ex-manager who helped recruit Facebook moderators said staff were often traumatised by material.". Sorry for not being more clear. Stressful traumatizing jobs can have a worse impact in a poor country that in one where there is more help available.