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The author is playing word games. Author states facebooks has good estimates for amount of hate content. Then say 99% (of terrorist material) of an unknown am
by ipaddr 3y ago
The author is playing word games. Author states facebooks has good estimates for amount of hate content. Then say 99% (of terrorist material) of an unknown amount.
Do they have good estimates or is this an unknown amount?
- kaycebasques 3y agoThe article cites Frances Haugen's whistleblower disclosures: > …we’re deleting less than 5% of all of the hate speech posted to Facebook. This is actually an optimistic estimate—previous (and more rigorous) iterations of this estimation exercise have put it closer to 3%, and on V&I [violence and incitement] we’re deleting somewhere around 0.6%…we miss 95% of violating hate speech. https://facebookpapers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Hate-speech_Redacted.pdf https://facebookpapers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Hate-s...
- ipaddr 3y agoIs that unknown? It's an estimate the author believes here and forgets below
- intended 3y agoFacebook states they remove 99% of hate speech. Their internal teams say they could be missing 95% of it. The reality is that Facebook has no idea how much hate speech they have. They remove 99% of whatever they detect.
- ipaddr 3y agoFacebook removed 95% of hate speech identified by automation / 5% manually of the hate speech they could identify which was between 3 and 5%. Facebook also said they removed 99% of terrorist/isis posting. Of which the author claims the total amount is unknown. But we know the % of hate speech because of facebooks ability to guess (as stated by the author of which the author was confident). Now we are lead to believe that terrorist content can't be estimated by facebook. Either we accept they can estimate and take the 99% of terrorist content removal in total at face value (of the total amount) or we must ignore facebooks hate content estimates