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Rather than the 5% number (which may be the best they can do with current start of art), what feels more damning to me is that they found a method that can redu
by arczyx 3y ago
Rather than the 5% number (which may be the best they can do with current start of art), what feels more damning to me is that they found a method that can reduce misinformation (by way more than 5%), and then decided to rollback it.
> And this method works. In Myanmar, “reshare depth demotion” reduced “viral inflammatory prevalence” by 25% and cut “photo misinformation” almost in half.
> In a reasonable world, I think Meta would have decided to broaden use of this method and work on refining it to make it even more effective. What they did, though, was decide to roll it back within Myanmar as soon as the upcoming elections were over.
- p_j_w 3y agoThe free market has spoken, and it will gladly accept helping encourage a genocide in the name of profits.
- hef19898 3y agoOne of the reasons real Communism (the USSR variety, not what people in the US think Communism is) has such a hard time in the capitalist societies: It is the only form of authoritarianism in which corporations cannot make profits.
- logicchains 3y ago>It is the only form of authoritarianism in which corporations cannot make profits It's still the same people making the profits though. Regardless of what political/economic system you have, sociopaths will always gravitate towards whatever position allows them to acquire the most wealth and power. The only difference is whether they have the legal right to send men with guns to lock you up or kill you if you disobey them.
- p_j_w 3y agoThe fact that you lack the ability for creativity and nuance to such a degree that you scream “HAH, Stalin!” anytime someone criticizes the free market says more about you than the point you’re arguing against.
- hef19898 3y agoI actually critized the free market for being totally fine with, e.g., fascism, or any kind of atrocoty as long as profits are to be made...
- fnordpiglet 3y agoSurely you aren’t asserting the Soviet Union committed no atrocities and was an angelic society of benevolent leaders blessing the harmonious proletariat? In any society composed of humans, the shitburgers will find a way to shit on the largest groups of people they can using whatever instrument of power is available. In the US it’s dollars, in the USSR, its influence and power.
- p_j_w 3y agoGP isn’t asserting that. They’re saying that the the western establishment will gladly tolerate right wing authoritarian governments because they allow private companies to run roughshod over everyone in the name of profit.
- p_j_w 3y agoOh I misread, sorry. In that case you’re completely correct. The right holding up dictatorships like Chiang Kai Shek, Pinochet, and Park regimes as being good are all great examples.
- megaman821 3y agoDoes this "real" Communism exist anywhere, or should it be more aptly named fantasy Communism?
- blackoil 3y agoWhat was the false positive rate? Blocking all posts about Israel and Palestine will bring down misinfo but that is rarely acceptable.
- droopyEyelids 3y agoWe're talking about the case where there was an actual genocide happening, and Facebook was aware of it.