Re:Facebook Has Been Showing Military Gear Ads Next to “Insu...
by optimiz3 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @10:40AM
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Clearly Facebook's systems are able to associate correct ads based on the semantics of the content. Since this is true, why can't those systems moderate said content?
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Re:Facebook Has Been Showing Military Gear Ads Next to “Insu...
by ben_w on Thursday January 14, 2021 @10:46AM
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If I assume that they are operating in good faith, false positives versus false negatives. Showing the wrong advert loses you a few pennies each time, incorrectly blocking legitimate content has a power-law distribution of cost in political capital, depending on whose stuff you block.
I don’t trust FB enough to want to give them the benefit of the doubt, but this would still be true if I did.