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Not saying this justifies anything, but at least the reasoning for the high false positive rate is simple. Facebook gets a lot of bad PR for having lots of mis
by 46756e 5y ago
Not saying this justifies anything, but at least the reasoning for the high false positive rate is simple.
Facebook gets a lot of bad PR for having lots of misinformation.
It makes sense from a business perspective to overcorrect, because general public is way more angry about potential misinformation than people having their normal posts taken down.
Again, not saying it’s justified, but having 1 major anti-vaccine post get through would be way worse for public image then 100 Christmas greetings being taken down and then corrected.
- native_samples 5y ago"because general public is way more angry about potential misinformation than people having their normal posts taken down" It may feel that way from inside Facebook, headquartered in a place so left wing it's basically decriminalized theft. It doesn't look that way from many other parts of the world, where many people believe that "misinformation" is a dystopian propaganda term meaning any statement unacceptable to the hard left, that "fact checking" is a joke and that all kinds of important and useful information is being censored by tech firms.