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I’ve seen a bit of how these sorts of things work and I’m going to give Meta the benefit of the doubt for the initial block, I’d like to think their leadership
by danpalmer 2y ago
I’ve seen a bit of how these sorts of things work and I’m going to give Meta the benefit of the doubt for the initial block, I’d like to think their leadership isn’t that brazen, and the fact this was fixed suggests an error. One bad piece of content (possibly related to critique of the incoming regime) tripped up an automated filter and took down a keyword at an unfortunate time.
What’s inexcusable is that it took so long to fix it. Taking so long caused the appearance of a strong political statement, and the fact that it took so long at least makes a statement about the importance of an issue like this in the company.
- wklauss 2y agoThis is a very unlikely scenario, given how many hashtags were blocked and how specific they were.
- chikere232 2y agoand the timing... Zuck lost any benefit of the doubt by publically removing fact checkers and the "the company needs to become more masculine" bs.
- Matthyze 2y agoAnd—more than anything—the timing.
- danpalmer 2y agoThen why did they "fix" it? They were related hashtags. My guess is a few bad posts on those hashtags that polluted them in some way, such that automated systems decided to classify those hashtags as bad. I'd bet that such a system exists, that's just basic responsibility.
- fencepost 2y agoIt's entirely believable that this showed up because of a bug, but it also seems likely that the bug was in setting it to full blocking vs some kind of deprioritization.