Re:Facebook Incubated the Insurrection
by brown9-2 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @12:56PM
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and did they begin that hiring before or after AWS shut them off? the WSJ article is dated January 11 2021.
Why would they hire moderators when they immediately decided to shut down after AWS's announcement?
What did they moderate though? I mean, was their standing orders to delete posts that advocate violence? Or were they just to ban people who criticize Donald Trump? My overall question is was there an actual effort to come into lines with Google/Apple/AWS TOS? Just because they had moderators doesn't mean they were making an effort to remove the sorts of posts that got them banned.
I don't have WSJ, so I'm not sure: https://www.wsj.com/articles/parler-struggles-survival-amazo...
Chance's are, they're probably not paying people to ban political content, since they can get their users to do that for free.
> In January 2021, the Wall Street Journal reported that Parler had increased its moderation team to 600 people, and began paying them. They also had begun hiring full-time employees to moderate the service.
It may be that Parler did too little too late, but I find it concerning that most mainstream news outlets are failing to report this.