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Links for reference? When the CEO spoke with Kara he said that they have groups of five random individuals on platform moderating each decision. That’s a filte

Links for reference? When the CEO spoke with Kara he said that they have groups of five random individuals on platform moderating each decision. That’s a filter bubble style of moderation and poor compared to Facebook/Twitter’s efforts for moderation. The CEO also made it sound like they ignore context and instead only respond to direct threats of violence, allowing vague remarks on platform.

Aunche 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler#Moderation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler#Moderation > In January 2021, the Wall Street Journal reported that Parler had increased its moderation team to 600 people, and began paying them. They also had begun hiring full-time employees to moderate the service. It may be that Parler did too little too late, but I find it concerning that most mainstream news outlets are failing to report this.
- astura 6y ago
  What did they moderate though? I mean, was their standing orders to delete posts that advocate violence? Or were they just to ban people who criticize Donald Trump? My overall question is was there an actual effort to come into lines with Google/Apple/AWS TOS? Just because they had moderators doesn't mean they were making an effort to remove the sorts of posts that got them banned.
  - Aunche 6y ago
    I don't have WSJ, so I'm not sure: https://www.wsj.com/articles/parler-struggles-survival-amazon-lawsuit-trump-fans-11610414745 https://www.wsj.com/articles/parler-struggles-survival-amazo... Chance's are, they're probably not paying people to ban political content, since they can get their users to do that for free.
- brown9-2 6y ago
  and did they begin that hiring before or after AWS shut them off? the WSJ article is dated January 11 2021.
  - Aunche 6y ago
    Why would they hire moderators when they immediately decided to shut down after AWS's announcement?

Aunche 6y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler#Moderation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler#Moderation > In January 2021, the Wall Street Journal reported that Parler had increased its moderation team to 600 people, and began paying them. They also had begun hiring full-time employees to moderate the service. It may be that Parler did too little too late, but I find it concerning that most mainstream news outlets are failing to report this.

astura 6y ago
What did they moderate though? I mean, was their standing orders to delete posts that advocate violence? Or were they just to ban people who criticize Donald Trump? My overall question is was there an actual effort to come into lines with Google/Apple/AWS TOS? Just because they had moderators doesn't mean they were making an effort to remove the sorts of posts that got them banned.
- Aunche 6y ago
  I don't have WSJ, so I'm not sure: https://www.wsj.com/articles/parler-struggles-survival-amazon-lawsuit-trump-fans-11610414745 https://www.wsj.com/articles/parler-struggles-survival-amazo... Chance's are, they're probably not paying people to ban political content, since they can get their users to do that for free.
brown9-2 6y ago
and did they begin that hiring before or after AWS shut them off? the WSJ article is dated January 11 2021.
- Aunche 6y ago
  Why would they hire moderators when they immediately decided to shut down after AWS's announcement?