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Re:Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, rep... by selcuka on Sunday December 24, 2023 @02:14AM (#38751798)
> 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.

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Re:Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, rep... by uoaei on Sunday December 24, 2023 @02:38AM (#38751901)
It would explain a lot about how Meta operates that the engineers don't factor things like this in.
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Re:Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, rep... by mgraczyk on Sunday December 24, 2023 @10:54AM (#38754300)
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.
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