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Re:Facebook slow to address political manipulation outside w... by mhoad on Monday April 12, 2021 @05:57AM (#26777672)
I’m not sure if you actually read the article but it was written with the whistleblower who was literally a data scientist and kept pointing out how easy it was to clearly identify (and therefore stop) these cases in question. They weren’t sophisticated in any way. The problem here wasn’t that it was difficult, it’s because Facebook had no incentive to care
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Re:Facebook slow to address political manipulation outside w... by gregasquith on Monday April 12, 2021 @06:01AM (#26777701)
The quote “There is a lot of harm being done on Facebook that is not being responded to because it is not considered enough of a PR risk to Facebook,” kind of sums it up!
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Re:Facebook slow to address political manipulation outside w... by bsenftner on Monday April 12, 2021 @07:40AM (#26778252)
That's a textbook definition of institutional evil.
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Re:Facebook slow to address political manipulation outside w... by franklampard on Monday April 12, 2021 @06:58AM (#26778019)
a data scientist fired for poor performance
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Re:Facebook slow to address political manipulation outside w... by mhoad on Monday April 12, 2021 @07:30AM (#26778194)
Making an argument that even the person who was supposedly fired for poor performance was STILL able to find what she found with almost zero effort on her behalf isn’t the compelling argument you seem to imagine it to be.
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Re:Facebook slow to address political manipulation outside w... by m-p-3 on Monday April 12, 2021 @07:59AM (#26778379)
Which can be used as an excuse to dismiss her without putting Facebook in trouble for discrimination or retribution.
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Re:Facebook slow to address political manipulation outside w... by fakedang on Monday April 12, 2021 @08:04AM (#26778420)
A data scientist fired for poor performance because she didn't perform some perfunctory tasks while she dedicated herself to investigating and uncovering all these fake bots.
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