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> The Nobel Peace Center advertised the event precisely on social media, but the ad on Facebook was removed, without further explanation, as "political advertis

> The Nobel Peace Center advertised the event precisely on social media, but the ad on Facebook was removed, without further explanation, as "political advertising". The center has been able to advertise other events on Facebook without any problems. I guess this is the one line that prompted the header, on an article that is primarily about the ex-Facebook employee's petition for Norway to divest from Meta. Admittedly I'm more inclined to just think that once again the ML enforcement models that the company uses have thrown a false positive more than there being some shady desire to silence the event (or I guess a true positive given how vague the message is, who knows what rule it may have violated).

nonrandomstring 5y ago
> > The Nobel Peace Center advertised the event precisely on social media, but the ad on Facebook was removed, without further explanation, as "political advertising". The center has been able to advertise other events on Facebook without any problems. > more inclined to just think that once again the ML enforcement models that the company uses have thrown a false positive Sorry, but when Aunt Agatha shows up dead in the library, the butler who benefits from the will, and gives her medication, is first on the list. That's why I think your analysis is itself problematic and part of what's going wrong here. What do you mean by false positive? On what criteria, that you personally know about how Facebook selects what to censor, do you "just think" such apologetics are deserved? I don't wish to pick on you alone, because it's a trope here that we rush to defend self-evidently rotten technologies and their application by crying "just a bug!", "just a glitch!". It's because we love the technology and mistake an attack on those who abuse it for an attack on what we identify with. > more than there being some shady desire to silence the event That's far too charitable. They have every motive to silence the event, and the means, and a kind of ever-fresh alibi that "the machine did it".
black_puppydog 5y ago
That must be one hell of a an ML model to single out an event where the peace center (usually not a red flag entity) is talking about Meta. I mean, that's extremely convenient. Such cases, a computer problem. Well, that's just force of nature, nothing we can do about it. Please move on. /s

nonrandomstring 5y ago

> > The Nobel Peace Center advertised the event precisely on social media, but the ad on Facebook was removed, without further explanation, as "political advertising". The center has been able to advertise other events on Facebook without any problems. > more inclined to just think that once again the ML enforcement models that the company uses have thrown a false positive Sorry, but when Aunt Agatha shows up dead in the library, the butler who benefits from the will, and gives her medication, is first on the list. That's why I think your analysis is itself problematic and part of what's going wrong here. What do you mean by false positive? On what criteria, that you personally know about how Facebook selects what to censor, do you "just think" such apologetics are deserved? I don't wish to pick on you alone, because it's a trope here that we rush to defend self-evidently rotten technologies and their application by crying "just a bug!", "just a glitch!". It's because we love the technology and mistake an attack on those who abuse it for an attack on what we identify with. > more than there being some shady desire to silence the event That's far too charitable. They have every motive to silence the event, and the means, and a kind of ever-fresh alibi that "the machine did it".

black_puppydog 5y ago

That must be one hell of a an ML model to single out an event where the peace center (usually not a red flag entity) is talking about Meta. I mean, that's extremely convenient. Such cases, a computer problem. Well, that's just force of nature, nothing we can do about it. Please move on. /s