Instagram, Twitter blame glitches for deleting Palestinian posts

Re:Instagram, Twitter blame glitches for deleting Palestinia... by SpicyLemonZest on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @07:25PM (#27136449)

Why do we assume that it can be fixed? Even if there were no time constraint at all, and you could abolish all moderation tools to spend an hour carefully analyzing each individual post, I suspect you'd produce a lot of valid moderation complaints from people with different but reasonable assumptions. I don't think there exists any good strategy for moderating such controversial issues.

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Re:Instagram, Twitter blame glitches for deleting Palestinia... by ALittleLight on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @09:17PM (#27137343)

They could try to detect incipient political situations, similar to how they detect trending tweets, and then treat reports related to those tweets with greater than usual scrutiny.

I don't think anyone expects Twitter or other social media companies to get this perfect. The nature of the problem means there will always be edge cases, debatable calls, and algorithms automatically doing unfortunate things. I do think there is a reasonable expectation for these companies to both do more and make progress.

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Re:Instagram, Twitter blame glitches for deleting Palestinia... by gipp on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @09:38PM (#27137477)

> I don't think anyone expects Twitter or other social media companies to get this perfect

That's exactly what nearly everyone expects, for exactly their own individual definition of perfect.

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