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A spam-detection algorithm that doesn't whitelist pages like The Guardian? I have to say I find it hard to believe that they would be so incompetent.
by tmalsburg2 8y ago
A spam-detection algorithm that doesn't whitelist pages like The Guardian? I have to say I find it hard to believe that they would be so incompetent.
- threeseed 8y agoFacebook can't be seen to be prioritising one news source over another. So I can't imagine they have lists of any news sources and rely entirely on user signals to determine the quality of a source.
- _cereal 8y agoI second that. An example: a few weeks ago I shared on my FB profile the Mozilla Foundation petition link for the EU copyright reform[1] and it was removed with this motivation: "We removed this post because it looks like spam and doesn't follow our Community Standards." [1] https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2018/09/07/eu-copyright-reform-the-facts/ https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2018/09/07/eu-copyright-r...
- debt 8y agoA whitelist? Huh? What is this the 90's? I'm pretty sure the algorithms use something more intelligent than a whitelist. A whitelist would be a major loophole in a spam algorithm.
- tmalsburg2 8y agoThe evidence at hand casts doubt on the idea that the algorithm is very intelligent.