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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by guy_ro on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @10:17PM (#23318742)
Hey, Facebook VP here (I work on this). We’ve made some meaningful changes to address this since 2016. We’ve strengthened our enforcement in groups and have been actively working on our recommendation tools as well, for example removing groups with extremist content that violates our policies, from recommendations.
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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by ENOTTY on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @11:21PM (#23319058)
As quoted, the presentation laid out at least one clear metrics by which one could measure your performance.

> “64% of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools”

How does Facebook currently define extremist group and how does that contrast with the definition of extremist group used in the presentation?

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