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This isn't very compelling. It's 2 anecdotes and a pretty damning final paragraph. Is there any more reliable data?

by iinnPP 9mo ago

junofan 9mo ago
I believe the headline is missing a “mistakenly”. Very strange article given the headline.
SilverElfin 9mo ago
Data? No. None of these companies are making their data freely available for analysis or being transparent about how their algorithms work. People have complained for a while that Twitter / X seems to suppress the visibility and reach of profiles or posts that disagree with Musk’s views. The recent open sourcing of their algorithm is meaningless since there’s no evidence of what they actually have in production or what data / configuration is used with it. So the best we can do is anecdotal examples. And it’s also obvious that Trump avoided banning TikTok for months, illegally, because he wanted to have another platform serve as a mouthpiece. He now has that by forcing a sale of TikTok to his friend, Larry Ellison.
- ethbr1 9mo ago
  The fact that social media companies aren't mandated by law to provide transparency into reach / visibility is a travesty. It should be fucking table stakes for being able to run a business with that much power and influence.
computerthings 9mo ago
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theshrike79 9mo ago
Anecdata is strong, I have multiple cases myself just from browsing this morning. But I'm leaning towards incompetence. Some US generated stuff was most likely moved to Oracle shitboxes, causing encoding issues and unreliable streaming. ...or it's malice and they're scanning the data and intentionally throttling traffic for unwanted content.
- c420 9mo ago
  Would the incompetence include deleting messages that used the word "Epstein"? https://i.redd.it/2stz13v1bsfg1.jpeg https://i.redd.it/2stz13v1bsfg1.jpeg There are quite a few reports on Reddit of users having any dm using that word being deleted. https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTok/comments/1qnxxgi/were_being_censored/ https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTok/comments/1qnxxgi/were_being_...
  - theshrike79 8mo ago
    Well, shit. It really was malice, they're just trying to claim incompetence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779809 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779809

This isn't very compelling. It's 2 anecdotes and a pretty damning final paragraph. Is there any more reliable data?

by iinnPP 9mo ago

This isn't very compelling. It's 2 anecdotes and a pretty damning final paragraph. Is there any more reliable data?

junofan 9mo ago

I believe the headline is missing a “mistakenly”. Very strange article given the headline.

SilverElfin 9mo ago

Data? No. None of these companies are making their data freely available for analysis or being transparent about how their algorithms work. People have complained for a while that Twitter / X seems to suppress the visibility and reach of profiles or posts that disagree with Musk’s views. The recent open sourcing of their algorithm is meaningless since there’s no evidence of what they actually have in production or what data / configuration is used with it. So the best we can do is anecdotal examples. And it’s also obvious that Trump avoided banning TikTok for months, illegally, because he wanted to have another platform serve as a mouthpiece. He now has that by forcing a sale of TikTok to his friend, Larry Ellison.

ethbr1 9mo ago
The fact that social media companies aren't mandated by law to provide transparency into reach / visibility is a travesty. It should be fucking table stakes for being able to run a business with that much power and influence.

computerthings 9mo ago

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theshrike79 9mo ago

Anecdata is strong, I have multiple cases myself just from browsing this morning. But I'm leaning towards incompetence. Some US generated stuff was most likely moved to Oracle shitboxes, causing encoding issues and unreliable streaming. ...or it's malice and they're scanning the data and intentionally throttling traffic for unwanted content.

c420 9mo ago
Would the incompetence include deleting messages that used the word "Epstein"? https://i.redd.it/2stz13v1bsfg1.jpeg https://i.redd.it/2stz13v1bsfg1.jpeg There are quite a few reports on Reddit of users having any dm using that word being deleted. https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTok/comments/1qnxxgi/were_being_censored/ https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTok/comments/1qnxxgi/were_being_...
- theshrike79 8mo ago
  Well, shit. It really was malice, they're just trying to claim incompetence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779809 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779809