Facebook slow to address political manipulation outside wealthy, western nations
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Re: Facebook slow to address political manipulation outside wealthy, western nations
#2I presume a firefox extension along the lines of Social Fixer would be able to filter all the likes/comments that come from pages rather than personal accounts. (But of course, a user needs to be aware of the issue in the first place, in order to want to install an extension to fix it)
Re: Facebook slow to address political manipulation outside wealthy, western nations
#3Because of the sensational headline, I'm not even going to click on this. Is there even a real difference between The Guardian and the Daily Mail?
Re: Facebook slow to address political manipulation outside wealthy, western nations
#4I wonder if writers of articles like this are aware of the complexity of a problem like this, algorithmically, legally and ethically.
All 3 are insanely difficult.
Re: Facebook slow to address political manipulation outside wealthy, western nations
#5Because of the sensational headline, I'm not even going to click on this. Is there even a real difference between The Guardian and the Daily Mail?
I tend to agree, but the Guardian does have expert knowledge on the subject of deceiving and harassing citizens.
Re: Facebook slow to address political manipulation outside wealthy, western nations
#6I wonder if writers of articles like this are aware of the complexity of a problem like this, algorithmically, legally and ethically. All 3 are insanely difficult.
The incredible thing is Big Tech has convinced us the solution is "too expensive" when they are making hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue.
Here's the truth - if you own a social media platform and you allow for microtargeting and psychological profiling, you have responsibility for what's mass shared throughout.
Re: Facebook slow to address political manipulation outside wealthy, western nations
#7I wonder if writers of articles like this are aware of the complexity of a problem like this, algorithmically, legally and ethically. All 3 are insanely difficult.
I’m not sure if you actually read the article but it was written with the whistleblower who was literally a data scientist and kept pointing out how easy it was to clearly identify (and therefore stop) these cases in question. They weren’t sophisticated in any way. The problem here wasn’t that it was difficult, it’s because Facebook had no incentive to care
Re: Facebook slow to address political manipulation outside wealthy, western nations
#8Because of the sensational headline, I'm not even going to click on this. Is there even a real difference between The Guardian and the Daily Mail?
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Re: Facebook slow to address political manipulation outside wealthy, western nations
#9I wonder if writers of articles like this are aware of the complexity of a problem like this, algorithmically, legally and ethically. All 3 are insanely difficult.
I’m not sure if you actually read the article but it was written with the whistleblower who was literally a data scientist and kept pointing out how easy it was to clearly identify (and therefore stop) these cases in question. They weren’t sophisticated in any way. The problem here wasn’t that it was difficult, it’s because Facebook had no incentive to care
The quote “There is a lot of harm being done on Facebook that is not being responded to because it is not considered enough of a PR risk to Facebook,” kind of sums it up!
Re: Facebook slow to address political manipulation outside wealthy, western nations
#10I presume a firefox extension along the lines of Social Fixer would be able to filter all the likes/comments that come from pages rather than personal accounts. (But of course, a user needs to be aware of the issue in the first place, in order to want to install an extension to fix it)
Yeah, the problem is those that are seeing/potentially being manipulated by this are (I would imagine) highly unlikely to use a browser extension or (more likely, in developing nations where Facebook is forcing itself on users through the Internet.org project) on the mobile app anyway