Leaked Meta data reveals campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts

Re:Leaked Meta data reveals campaign to remove pro-Palestine... by rrrrrrrrrrrryan on Friday April 11, 2025 @05:36PM (#43658886)

I don't think this is necessarily an issue of censorship so much as it is highlighting that Facebook is clearly a fucking news publisher and should be treated as such under the law.

It's time to revoke section 230 for any social media network that amplifies or buries content with a non-transparent process.

In this case it isn't even merely an algorithm designed by humans. They have LITERAL human editors choosing which stories to put on the front page, just like the NYT, and they should be held liable for the content on their platforms just like legacy media is.

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Re:Leaked Meta data reveals campaign to remove pro-Palestine... by mkolodny on Friday April 11, 2025 @07:24PM (#43659787)

Are you saying you think human editors handpick what goes on billions of people’s Facebook feeds?

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Re:Leaked Meta data reveals campaign to remove pro-Palestine... by bolognafairy on Friday April 11, 2025 @07:58PM (#43660023)

Did you actually read the article?

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Re:Leaked Meta data reveals campaign to remove pro-Palestine... by mkolodny on Friday April 11, 2025 @08:05PM (#43660055)

Did you read the comment I’m replying to?

> They have LITERAL human editors choosing which stories to put on the front page, just like the NYT, and they should be held liable for the content on their platforms just like legacy media is.

Do you think a Facebook feed is just like the New York Times?

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Re:Leaked Meta data reveals campaign to remove pro-Palestine... by BriggyDwiggs42 on Saturday April 12, 2025 @04:30PM (#43667718)

Wait but if you perform an extremely complex method of algorithmic curation, at some point isn’t the human designing the algorithm becoming an editor?

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