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wish people would work on an easy-to-use alternative to facebook for groups instead of bragging about how easy it is for you to quit facebook
i literally can’t.
i literally can’t.
January 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
wish people would work on an easy-to-use alternative to facebook for groups instead of bragging about how easy it is for you to quit facebook
i literally can’t.
i literally can’t.
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I am all for revising content moderation approaches in the face of *evidence* that something is or isn't working. This is all a project of experimentation! It should be subject to revision. But companies should release the data to support their assertions.
Genuinely baffled by the unempirical assertion that Community Notes “works.” Does it? How do Meta know? The best available research is pretty mixed on this point.
And as they go all-in on an unproven concept, will Meta commit to publicly releasing data so people can actually study this?
And as they go all-in on an unproven concept, will Meta commit to publicly releasing data so people can actually study this?
January 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I am all for revising content moderation approaches in the face of *evidence* that something is or isn't working. This is all a project of experimentation! It should be subject to revision. But companies should release the data to support their assertions.
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“which ‘bunch of restrictions’?”
“oh you know which ones”
“oh you know which ones”
Facebook will also "get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse," Zuckerberg says.
And the U.S.-based content review teams will be based in Texas, not California, going forward
And the U.S.-based content review teams will be based in Texas, not California, going forward
January 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
“which ‘bunch of restrictions’?”
“oh you know which ones”
“oh you know which ones”
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Meta says it's still rolling out changes to loosen content moderation—but it already updated its Hateful Conduct policy with big changes. For example...it explicitly allows calling someone mentally ill for being gay or trans now www.wired.com/story/meta-i...
Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness'
Meta rolled out a number of changes to its “Hateful Conduct” policy Tuesday as part of a sweeping overhaul of its approach toward content moderation.
www.wired.com
January 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Meta says it's still rolling out changes to loosen content moderation—but it already updated its Hateful Conduct policy with big changes. For example...it explicitly allows calling someone mentally ill for being gay or trans now www.wired.com/story/meta-i...
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They want you to think Community Notes has all the integrity of Wikipedia, but with none of the governance structures that make Wikipedia what it is.
To mangle a reference, if they wanted Wikipedia, they would have invented Wikipedia.
To mangle a reference, if they wanted Wikipedia, they would have invented Wikipedia.
January 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
They want you to think Community Notes has all the integrity of Wikipedia, but with none of the governance structures that make Wikipedia what it is.
To mangle a reference, if they wanted Wikipedia, they would have invented Wikipedia.
To mangle a reference, if they wanted Wikipedia, they would have invented Wikipedia.
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So many journalists, researchers and fact-check organizations spent years lending time and legitimacy to Facebook. And this is how it ends.
It’s remarkable that Zuck said “the fact-checkers have just been too politically biased, and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the U.S." He not only ended the partnership, he threw US fact checkers under the bus.
January 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
So many journalists, researchers and fact-check organizations spent years lending time and legitimacy to Facebook. And this is how it ends.
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any billionaire buying Wikipedia would be a tragedy, "on the good side" or not. we need to stop divvying up all the important institutions along billionaires and then relying on their good graces — look how it's gone so far.
Isn’t there a democratic billionaire who can buy Wikipedia and keep it free of Rich White MAGA Separatists??
Please we need a wealthy benefactor who’s on the good side, the sane side, the kind side, the normal American side
Please we need a wealthy benefactor who’s on the good side, the sane side, the kind side, the normal American side
As I wrote last week: "As other information sources fall, Wikipedia’s stubborn independence becomes more vital than ever. The attacks from [the right] aren't just about an online encyclopedia — they're part of a broader assault on any information source that refuses to be controlled."
January 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
any billionaire buying Wikipedia would be a tragedy, "on the good side" or not. we need to stop divvying up all the important institutions along billionaires and then relying on their good graces — look how it's gone so far.
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everyone on the other text-based social network posting a link to their profile on a different one as it announces policies intolerable to them
January 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
everyone on the other text-based social network posting a link to their profile on a different one as it announces policies intolerable to them
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Fact checking is not censorship.
It's an essential public service.
Disinformation kills. Period.
It's an essential public service.
Disinformation kills. Period.
January 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Fact checking is not censorship.
It's an essential public service.
Disinformation kills. Period.
It's an essential public service.
Disinformation kills. Period.
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Birds only migrate a couple times a year but X and Threads users migrate to Bluesky every time a tech CEO does something stupid (weekly)
January 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Birds only migrate a couple times a year but X and Threads users migrate to Bluesky every time a tech CEO does something stupid (weekly)
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