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According to the article, it was not just the page that was removed. That could have been a mistake, I suppose. But Facebook also banned "dozens of leading SWP
by im3w1l 6y ago
According to the article, it was not just the page that was removed. That could have been a mistake, I suppose. But Facebook also banned "dozens of leading SWP activists". That sounds like a very deliberate action to me.
- notahacker 6y agoTo me that sounds even more like an algorithm at work, and quite possibly one more concerned with identifying possible fake accounts than identifying political violence (Relevant context: the SWP is tiny and inconsequential, but very active in coordinating its [unlikely to be violent] messaging and inflating its importance. Nobody would know who its "dozens of leading activists" were to target them. And its local group pages are still up and easily discoverable by searching, so if it was a deliberate action to silence the party it would be a very sloppy one)
- dathinab 6y ago> that sounds even more like an algorithm at work It doesn't matters. You are as much responsible for decisions done by your algorithms as you are for decisions done by people. If you can not guarantee that algorithms work in the parameters of moral and law you can not use them. It is that simple.