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This is pretty cool! I'd be curious to see if this could be used against facebook groups as well. I'm in a bunch of "locals" and "special interest" groups and
by bifrost 7y ago
This is pretty cool!
I'd be curious to see if this could be used against facebook groups as well. I'm in a bunch of "locals" and "special interest" groups and they're constantly full of "send the techies home" or "we don't want outsiders here" or "we don't want $X_VARIETY_PERSON in our $GROUP because $TERRIBLE_REASONS".
- starostaabe 7y agoYeah for sure we could build a model that. We need to protect the techies :p Facebook data is hard to get so it's hard for anyone to use it even if we made that model it. Do you see that in other social media sites? for example twitter?
- bifrost 7y agoI see much less serious Xenophobia on Twitter, its not really a community. On community oriented sites I see lots of issues with race/national origin, cultural practices, religious intolerance. Complaints about gentrification are also cryptoxenophobia and there's a lot of nuance there.
- starostaabe 7y agoThat's really interesting, if you know how to find a dataset from those communities that could be a great model to build in the next weeks
- bifrost 7y agoIt looks like you can use the "Facebook Explorer" API to pull out some of the text contents of groups you're members of. I could send you some names of groups to join where there's definite out xenophobia. I've also noticed that there is a correlation with attempts to "revise" history which seems weird at first but then you realize its being used to silence a group of people.
- starostaabe 7y agoAwesome, yes please share the names of those groups and we can look into it.
- bifrost 7y agoThis is my current favorite: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SFCurrentEvents/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/SFCurrentEvents/ There's a lot of good people in this group, but there's also a lot of insane xenophobia in it.