Re: Moar FB

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I feel like Heebie's take is good at pointing out problems with both Facebook and the U.S. healthcare system.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-21-18 6:57 PM
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Could you post a video of somebody getting their head split open to Facebook if you weren't trying to incite violence? Asking for a friend.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-21-18 7:00 PM
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I bet they devote more oversight per post to the US and other countries in its league.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 11-21-18 10:07 PM
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Maybe they're waiting to see if the Russians will pay for the propaganda.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-22-18 6:56 AM
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I do wonder if Mr Ahmed could not be prosecuted under the UK laws about hate speech. It would be a popular case.


Posted by: NW | Link to this comment | 11-22-18 9:37 AM
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Probably, if you can get arrested over a Grenfell effigy (a furore which I missed entirely until reading Private Eye today).


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 11-22-18 9:55 AM
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Only loosely related, but the alt-right has to have figured out how to manipulate Youtube recommendations. I keep getting recommendations for "the new female Doctor on Doctor Who sucks" videos. I'm pretty sure I've never watched a Doctor Who Youtube video on this computer, and I was just searching for videos by Garfunkel and Oates (feminist comedian singer-songwriters). People claim that it's an emergent property of Youtube'a algorithm that maximizes engagement, but I don't believe this is an emergent outcome.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 11-22-18 4:31 PM
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Maybe Simon and Hall are angry.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-22-18 4:32 PM
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This is no laughing matter. Social media algorithms can destroy democracy, inspire genocide, and elect a fascist President, but when it starts interfering with my half-assed comedy viewing, it's gone too far.


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 11-22-18 4:45 PM
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Actively radicalizing people probably does goose engagement.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 11-23-18 12:11 PM
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YouTube has a female CEO, a fact which may or may not be ironic. I can't decide.


Posted by: Lurid keyaki | Link to this comment | 11-23-18 12:29 PM
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