Facebook Says It’s Policing Fake Accounts, but They’re Still Easy to Spot

Re:Facebook Says It’s Policing Fake Accounts, but They’re St... by stingraycharles on Monday November 06, 2017 @12:40PM (#15637121)

I agree with this sentiment. While you want to develop a scalable filter that is able to police these kind of things, the flip side may be even worse — discrimination, racism, etc. Just look at the backlash that YouTube is getting for their recent changes in their algorithm, if Facebook gets even slightly too many false negatives the backlash is likely to be a lot worse.

I would hate to stand in Zuckerberg’s shoes here. It seems like they will lose this fight, no matter what. The solution might be more political than technical; that is, to teach people to be skeptical and use proper judgement when reading news articles.

But that’s most likely too much to ask.

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Re:Facebook Says It’s Policing Fake Accounts, but They’re St... by Chaebixi on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @02:15PM (#15646518)

> I would hate to stand in Zuckerberg’s shoes here. It seems like they will lose this fight, no matter what. The solution might be more political than technical; that is, to teach people to be skeptical and use proper judgement when reading news articles.

He could just hire more and better people to do the moderation (or handle appeals). I kinda feel companies like Facebook take the attitude that things aren't worth doing unless they can be automated by an algorithm.

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Re:Facebook Says It’s Policing Fake Accounts, but They’re St... by komali2 on Monday November 06, 2017 @12:58PM (#15637293)

Could always do what 4chan did and just ban all Russian IP addresses.

https://twitter.com/4chan/status/741452104112439296

(joking...)

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