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Definitely agree that the first assumption you should jump to re FB is that the algorithm is bad, or something broke. Of course FB knows this, so their lack of
by erehweb 5y ago
Definitely agree that the first assumption you should jump to re FB is that the algorithm is bad, or something broke. Of course FB knows this, so their lack of investment in people who could clean up after these repeated errors is damning.
- danShumway 5y agoI'm sure someone could link here to the Mozilla thread about Google being slow to fix "convenient" mistakes that broke Firefox, regardless of whether or not those mistakes were intentional or not. Sometimes even accidents can be revealing about where a company's priorities lie and what things they actually think are important. But that's probably a much deeper, longer conversation to have. I do believe that Facebook regularly uses the poor performance of its moderation algorithms at scale as a shield against public scrutiny, and as a way to occasionally influence public policy.