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If you read the article carefully, what you find is that Facebook moderators appear to be focusing on instances where one race targets another. For example, wh
by rpiguy 9y ago
If you read the article carefully, what you find is that Facebook moderators appear to be focusing on instances where one race targets another.
For example, when the African American woman in the article makes a blanket post about white people being the problem and they take it down. When a white person posts it they leave it up, because they are criticizing their own race. The Kendal Jenner story in the article is the same situation.
It sounds like the moderators are human and trying to apply some human logic to it rather than enforce restrictive rules.
Again it is always tricky to figure out what mods are trying to achieve, but it seems they are only accepting criticisms of a race if a member of that race makes the criticism.
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What is inexcusable is when the woman posted a screen capture of the abuse she received via private messages, Facebook banned her and did nothing to her harassers.
- vkou 9y ago> For example, when the African American woman in the article makes a blanket post about white people being the problem and they take it down. When a white person posts it they leave it up, because they are criticizing their own race. The Kendal Jenner story in the article is the same situation. What about Sherronda Brown? The posts of the white racists attacking her were not removed. Her posts, containing screenshots of that racism (Targeted against her) were removed. The likely explanation is that they were very widely reported (By the same people who were attacking her), and that the number of reports plays into Facebook's moderation algorithm. Unfortunately, this will result in people of colour being silenced more frequently then white people, for far less egregious statements.
- rpiguy 9y agoDid you not read my entire post? I said specifically that it was inexcusable that her screenshots were removed and the racists were not punished. Also, do you know how the reporting system works? I believe most of the reviewers of reported content are actually overseas in India. Something gets reported, it gets reviewed by a contractor overseas who quickly decides whether to take it down. If it is all algorithmic, they need to make sure it can account for harassers.