Impartial document on Fb bias catalogs gentle lawsuits from conservatives

An impartial investigator has issued a initial document on its paintings figuring out the life and/or extent of bias towards conservatives on Fb. It is refreshingly mild studying — the lawsuits are much less "Facebook is a den of liberals" and extra "we need more transparency on ad policies."
An independent investigator has issued a preliminary report on its work determining the existence and/or extent of bias against conservatives on Facebook. It's refreshingly light reading — the complaints are less "Facebook is a den of liberals" and more "we need more transparency on ad policies."Original article
Author: Devin Coldewey

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  3. "It's a bit strange to hear that the world's leading social network is pursuing research in robotics rather than, say, making search useful, but Facebook is a big organization with many competing priorities". (May 20, 2019)
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  5. "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)
  6. "Facebook has agreed to block access to certain anti-government content to users in Vietnam, following months of having its services throttled there, reportedly by state-owned telecoms". (April 22, 2020)
  7. "Training an artificial intelligence agent to do something like navigate a complex 3D world is computationally expensive and time-consuming". (January 21, 2020)
  8. "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)
  9. "If you've ever seen a lamp or chair that you liked and wished you could just take a picture and find it online, well, GrokStyle let you do that — and now the company has been snatched up by Facebook to augment its own growing computer vision department". (February 9, 2019)
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