Google removes over 5M reviews from Play Store to improve TikTok rating

Post by ketzu » Tue, May 26, 2020, 10:59 AM UTC

kragen wrote: post #52

nwienert wrote: post #28

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Yea would like to see source outside DailyMail. Also to people downvoting, why? I’m not backing the source, I’m just curious.

Okay, but it's immediately clear that nobody who wrote this paper is knowledgeable about virology or the norms of academic publishing — but they were trying to fake it. Yet the first author is claimed to be a real person who is in fact a virologist with lots of academic publications. How about Wired? https://www.wired.com/story/an-old-malaria-drug-may-fight-co... > Except for that video, which hadn’t come out yet, Ri…

Post by thepete2 » Tue, May 26, 2020, 11:36 AM UTC

Freeboots wrote: post #51

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I swear you could generate a 100% realistic comment thread from a Markov chain of those broad topics.

https://hncynic.leod.org/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19694578

Post by cdirkx » Tue, May 26, 2020, 12:39 PM UTC

kumarvvr wrote: post #40

I understand the need to remove "review bombs", but aren't review bombs reviews too? Say a company that develops a product says or does something insensitive, in the earlier days, people would publicly boycott that product, related products or what have you. The company would either stand down and apologize, or put it's foot down and say it's right. Now picture the same thing with Tik-Tok. There are innumerable insta…

Post by nwienert » Tue, May 26, 2020, 2:09 PM UTC

ketzu wrote: post #90

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Haha that’s a really great way of putting it. All the worst censorship is framed as anti-spam/hate/misinformation, absolutely.

It's still possible to have personal judgement if a claim is true. I assume many people would aggree that preventing bots from spamming a forum is not a form of censorship, even though it might be "technically true" in a sense that muddies the seriousnes of what we usually mean with censorship. So having dissenting accounts deleted and the company claiming they are cleared as anti-spam does not mean anti-spam suddenl…

Post by andrewflnr » Tue, May 26, 2020, 2:59 PM UTC

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500 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute ; it's impossible to moderate all of that. "Lots of users reported it in a short timespan" is a reasonable heuristic to quickly remove ISIS beheading videos and whatnot. It's not perfect, but nothing YouTube does at this kind of scale will be.

> 500 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute; it's impossible to moderate all of that. Ironically, I hear about this fact every time Youtube makes the news for ... you know ... moderating all of that.