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Moderation is an extremely hard problem to deal with well. Have you ever attempted to manage a community?
There are over two billion people on there. How about paying their users for finding and reporting content? A reputation system to find and pay trustworthy people to clean up. Thereby delegating the task back to the scale where it belongs, some money and incentives too.
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Moderation is an extremely hard problem to deal with well. Have you ever attempted to manage a community?
There are over two billion people on there. How about paying their users for finding and reporting content? A reputation system to find and pay trustworthy people to clean up. Thereby delegating the task back to the scale where it belongs, some money and incentives too.
Next step - how to prevent Sybil accounts created by the bounty hunters from generating new mal-content on an industrial scale for bounty hunters to identify for reward.
They didn't catch the 3 fake profiles I set up on Facebook. I've not used them for five or more years, but I checked recently and they are still there and still let me log in without so much as a "where you been". They all have obviously fake names and were used only for testing advertising at various times in the past.
The actual report: https://transparency.facebook.com/community-standards-enforc... Fake accounts are estimated to represent 5% of all monthly active users.
"The majority of these accounts were caught within minutes of registration, before they became a part of our monthly active user (MAU) population."
For MUA, recent news said "Facebook now serves 2.37 billion monthly active users". And 5% of that is "only" 120 million.
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Do fake profiles 'see' ads? They don't artificially browse around the site, to create impressions, or do they?
But doesn't FB use the existence of said profiles as a lure for advertisers? (eg. Your ad could reach any of our 1B members...) Seems like a class-action lawsuit in the making.
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Even without political advertising, the amount of fake news spread in Groups in the form of memes and images is absolutely fracking staggering. If you go through the facebook feed of a conservative facebook user in their 50s+, you quite literally will see all lies and propaganda, and nothing real (for one ex: see the horribly faked Nancy Pelosi video that spread like wildfire yesterday, despite it's obvious fakeness)…
Fake news is the symptom. The disease is confirmation bias. The internet, and particularly social media, has become the most efficient and effective confirmation bias machine ever. People gladly (read: voluntarily) crawl into their self-fulfilling echo chamber and instantly become the master of their own universe. They get to believe whatever it is they want to believe. No assumption too strange. No "belief fetish" t…
When your root-cause analysis turns up an intractable problem that can't be solved, then maybe turn the intractable problem against itself.
Instead of eliminating filter bubbles and confirmation bias, encourage them. Herd the haters, trolls and propagandists into their own subgroups and shadow-ban them so people outside the group can't see them.
It doesn't solve the problem of confirmation bias, but it might help contain it and prevent wider contamination.
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Haven't tested but moving to resposive might trigger a user agent change. Can the same be done on FF?
Firefox has a mode where you can choose from a dropdown of phone/tablet types, and it will set your user agent and screen size appropriately. I believe it's called "Responsive Design Mode."
Dev tools > Responsive Design Mode in the top right, then back on the main page, selected a phone model. I had to reload the page for it to show the phone version of the site.
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Moderation is an extremely hard problem to deal with well. Have you ever attempted to manage a community?
That's true, but FB is not a "community" -- its a global mass mob consiting of billions of people. Even thinking about trying to moderate something at that scale is ridiculously impossible and disengenuous.
I can't think of anything harder than that to scale.
To what degree are advertisers aware that the profiles which see their ads may not be genuine users? I suspect they either don't know, or have no alternatives.
Advertisers simply don´t know. The reason most of them don´t know is because there are virtually no tools available that can distinguish between a real user and a fake user. Only FB can make that assessment with some degree of certainty and even that can´t be trusted. External partners have been given a choice: either advertise at the risk of it being some garbage traffic, or not advertise at all. And for obvious rea…
Do you mean "the former"? 'Cause, you know, there are still ads.
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What was this scam?
There are groups (on Discord, Facebook) where people sell Amazon gift card codes for less than the value of the gift card. Sometimes they are real codes that have been bought with accounts that have been hacked through email phishing, and sometimes they are completely fake.