A trove of leaked Facebook moderator memos has revealed how users are allowed to call for the death of public figures and can praise mass murders based on company’s own vague definitions of what constitutes a ‘crime’. More than 300 pages of internal Facebook moderation guidelines in effect as of last December were obtained by … Read more
Facebook is putting machine learning to work to help speed up and prioritize content moderation. Previously, human reviewers dealt with most flagged posts chronologically, with AI relegated to spam and other low-priority jobs. Now, the social media giant’s AI systems are prioritizing possibly objectionable content by virality and threat level. Messages, photos and videos relating … Read more
The day after Facebook announced it will launch its Oversight Board in October to determine what’s allowed on the site, critics launched their own alternative. The Citizens, a UK nonprofit, unveiled the ‘Real Facebook Oversight Board’ on Friday to address the social media giant’s policies and practices ahead of the US presidential election. The group … Read more