Re:Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions
by acdha on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @11:17AM
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There's not really a shortcut around having employees do it because Facebook has a significant amount of private content which users will not tolerate being shared, standards vary widely (imagine a vegan flagging every picture with leather visible or a post about eating meat as obscene ā if you're requiring this, do you just disable their account once you notice it?), and especially because it's the target of coordinated group activity so errors won't be uncorrelated: get a cycle of outrage politics going and you'll have thousands of people around the world who have no easily-observed connection to each other flagging things as either objectionable or safe.
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Re:Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions
by Fjolsvith on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @11:48AM
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And yet Facebook lawyers recently argued to a judge that there is no expectation of privacy on Facebook.
Re:Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions
by acdha on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @12:58PM
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Iām not defending them but there is a distinction between Facebook using your private data for mining and displaying it to random strangers. Any sort of user-driven moderation policy would need to have a way to handle that or people would stop using the service.
Re:Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions
by Fjolsvith on Thursday June 20, 2019 @12:49AM
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Isn't everything you post on FB available for anyone to browse?
Re:Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions
by saagarjha on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @01:09PM
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You could have a system where multiple people flagging certain content would be a signal to give it manual review.
Re:Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions
by otakucode on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @05:51PM
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I've always expected that a system which could work, albeit with flaws, would be to ratchet up censorship for any individual user who flags content. The more they flag, the less they see. The only 'problem' is that this would leave users fearing that there are others who have not flagged the same content objectionable that they have, and are viewing that content without being actively prevented. They'd be protected themselves, but it would be easy to convince them (if any convincing is even necessary) that 'almost everyone else' is consuming the raw obscene feed and being turned into monsters by it.