Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Facebook's massive, secret rulebook for policing speech reveals inconsistencies, gaps and biases | Fox News

Facebook's massive, secret rulebook for policing speech reveals inconsistencies, gaps and biases | Fox News
"...Facebook’s most politically consequential and potentially divisive document could be an Excel spreadsheet that the Times reports lists every group and individual the company has barred as a "hate figure." 
Moderators are told to remove any post praising, supporting or representing any of the people on that list.
Anton Shekhovtsov, an expert in far-right groups, told the publication he was “confused about the methodology.” 
...For a tech company to draw these lines is “extremely problematic,” Jonas Kaiser, a Harvard University expert on online extremism, told the Times. “It puts social networks in the position to make judgment calls that are traditionally the job of the courts.”..."
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