Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app

Re:Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted ... by ChuckMcM on Monday October 29, 2018 @06:08PM (#18332022)

It would be uniquely refreshing if Facebook would apply an overlay to every post that gave it a true/false and hate/love rating. This makes an interesting 2 x 2 box score and for a while I was looking at some NLP to pull out common themes and rate them, but I realized that if you just used a bi-variable version of the "like" widget you could have people moderate.

Such a signal, combined with actual research on the veracity and tone of the post could be combined to highlight places where people need help and where bad actors might be plying their wares.

But I don't honestly expect anyone in management at Facebook to advocate such a system.

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Re:Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted ... by mschuster91 on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @02:00AM (#18334246)

> It would be uniquely refreshing if Facebook would apply an overlay to every post that gave it a true/false and hate/love rating.

It would instantly be weaponized. Already, right-wing groups specialize in taking down antifa and LGBT pages on Facebook or Twitter by abusing the report feature. To make it worse, Facebook apparently automatically locks pages upon getting a high number of reports in a short timeframe.

You can bet that anything not from Fox News or Infowars would be flag-abused as "fake news" in an instant.

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