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I always assume that these kinds of automatic censoring are largely based off user reporting. Arresting the mayor of San Fransisco for the robbery in Miami make
by boomboomsubban 5y ago
I always assume that these kinds of automatic censoring are largely based off user reporting. Arresting the mayor of San Fransisco for the robbery in Miami makes sense if hundreds of people called the police to report the mayor was the culprit. It's likely a bad arrest, but it's worth at least figuring out why so many people are reporting him.
Unfortunately that allows bad actors to game the system, but not quickly responding to reports allows the truly heinous content to remain on the site for longer.
- smsm42 5y agoI kinda have hard time believing a lot of people would report а Merry Christmas post as discriminatory. I'd believe it about any other political post, and I know there are some people who are triggered by any mention of religious holidays, but there wouldn't be hundreds of them flocking to brigade а relatively obscure Canadian politician. It just doesn't look like a realistic scenario. I think it's a pure artificial idiocy. I may have some conspiratorial thoughts about why artificial idiocy FB is designing leans in this particular direction, but since I don't have any data I'd just leave it at that.
- boomboomsubban 5y agoHe's Canada's version of a member of the House of Representatives, and it's the kind of thing that's probably done by relative number of reports vs number of views so being less well known would make it easier for a small group to achieve.
- joelbondurant0 5y ago