Re:Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, rep...
by selcuka on Sunday December 24, 2023 @02:14AM
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> The ML is good enough to know whether your followers want to engage with political content. If they don't, Facebook will show them less of it.
This is a very simplistic explanation. If the GP is a political activist and "always comments on draft laws", I would expect their followers to be willing to engage with political content.
Re:Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, rep...
by uoaei on Sunday December 24, 2023 @02:38AM
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It would explain a lot about how Meta operates that the engineers don't factor things like this in.
Re:Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, rep...
by mgraczyk on Sunday December 24, 2023 @10:54AM
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We did, they do. When I was there people did "calibration studies" for certain sensitive categories to understand and fix any model biases that would rank content higher for undesirable or unexpected reasons.
Re:Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, rep...
by Joeri on Sunday December 24, 2023 @03:21AM
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I feel a deep discomfort with algorithms optimizing for “engaging” content like this. It feels to me like a form of algorithmic brainwashing, capturing people in filter bubbles. I would prefer it if there were laws against platforms making visibility decisions for the user. If people choose to be in a bubble, that’s a form of personal freedom, if an unknowable algorithm chooses for them, not so much.
Re:Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, rep...
by mgraczyk on Sunday December 24, 2023 @10:56AM
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Most people on Meta's product follow too many accounts to see everything everyone posts. In an alternate reality where ranking is illegal, the game would be different and worse. Accounts would just repost the same content over and over every few minutes to stay at the top of the feed, or some other strategy to get distribution.
Re:Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, rep...
by frabcus on Monday December 25, 2023 @04:14AM
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Right but users could be given prominent ways to deal with this - eg tools and buttons to (in bulk at first) unfollow people.
Re:Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, rep...
by slim on Sunday December 24, 2023 @09:42AM
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Well, it does not make sense because : 1- I know the baseline of interactions I get usually 2- it's not something that happened to my account specifically, it's everybody, including community managers, for whom posting content is a monetizable skill, who resort to obfuscation when they use the word "Palestine".
The ML is good enough to know whether your followers want to engage with political content. If they don't, Facebook will show them less of it.