Craig Silverman, Ryan Mac and Pranav Dixit have a
scathing article in BuzzfeedNews about a memo written by a former Facebook data
analyst, Sophie Zhang, about the content moderation policies affecting
non-western countries.
She turned down a severance agreement in order to be
able to disclose the problems. But she says she has “blood on her hands” having
unbelievable “power” to affect outcomes in unstable countries where
authoritarian leaders or trolls manipulate a rather non-literate population. In
some countries, Facebook is “the Internet’.
At the same time, Facebook is doubling down on the
increasing potential for harm, as with the wildire situation on the West Coast,
stopping rumors of how the fires might have been set. (Most start with dry lightning).
This also follows their doubling down on obvious trolls and conspiracy theories
(“Qanon”, etc). The most factual story
I can find on the fires is in the New York Times Sept. 12. Update: US News on one of the Oregon fires (Talent).
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