Fb and YouTube’s moderation failure is a chance to deplatform the platforms

Fb, YouTube, and Twitter have failed their process of tracking and moderating the content material that looks on their websites; what’s extra, they failed to take action smartly sooner than they knew it was once an issue. However their incidental cultivation of fringe perspectives is a chance to recast their function because the …
Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter have failed their task of monitoring and moderating the content that appears on their sites; what’s more, they failed to do so well before they knew it was a problem. But their incidental cultivation of fringe views is an opportunity to recast their role as the …

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Author: Devin Coldewey

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Devin Coldewey has recently written 11 articles on similar topics including :
  1. "Facebook will soon add labels to news outlets owned or otherwise controlled by a government, marking that information as, if not necessarily false or unreliable, at least worth considering the origin of. Those so labeled will also be banned from buying ads starting this summer". (June 4, 2020)
  2. "Facebook has challenged the FTCs antitrust case against it using a standard playbook that questions the agencys arguably expansive approach to defining monopolies". (March 10, 2021)
  3. "Facebook first showed off its 3D photos back in 2018, and shared the technical details behind it a month later. But unless you had one of a handful of phones with dual cameras back then (when they weren't so common), you couldn't make your own". (February 28, 2020)
  4. "Image and video manipulation powered by deep learning, or so-called “deepfakes,” represent a strange and horrifying facet of a promising new field". (September 16, 2019)
  5. "If AI-powered robots are ever going to help us out around the house, they're going to need a lot of experience navigating human environments". (June 14, 2019)
  6. "The digitally face-swapped videos known as deepfakes arent going anywhere, but if platforms want to be able to keep an eye on them, they need to find them first. Doing so was the object of Facebooks Deepfake Detection Challenge, launched last year". (June 12, 2020)
  7. "If we're going to map the world, we're not going to do it with ever-greater volumes of elbow grease. There's just too much work to do". (July 24, 2019)
  8. "The latest research out of Facebook sets machine learning models to tasks that, to us, seem rather ordinary but for a computer are still monstrously difficult. These projects aim to anonymize faces, improvise hand movements and perhaps hardest of all give credible fashion advice". (November 11, 2019)
  9. "An independent investigator has issued a preliminary report on its work determining the existence and/or extent of bias against conservatives on Facebook". (August 28, 2019)
  10. "Facebook's WhatsApp is in the midst of a lawsuit against Israeli mobile surveillance outfit NSO Group. But before complaining about the company's methods, Facebook seems to have wanted to use them for its own purposes, according to testimony from NSO founder Shalev Hulio". (April 4, 2020)
  11. "YouTube now officially limits the amount of data it and creators can collect on content intended for children, following promises made in November and a costly $170 million FTC fine in September". (January 7, 2020)
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