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Dear lord. There is so much wrong with how this study was conducted. Let us count the ways. (THREAD)
1. As we found in our #MalignCreativity report @TheWilsonCenter, there is an entire movement on Twitter and other sites by abusers to evade detection from AI / content moderators, so a list of "300 commonly used English-language slurs" ain't conna cut it. wilsoncenter.org/publication/ma…
2. @Twitter's focus on impressions shows they are not interested in actually reducing harm, just reducing how it *looks.* It doesn't matter if a tweet calling for your rape and hanging gets 10 impressions or 10000, they both are harmful to the target.
"Zuckerberg testified last year before Congress that the company removes 94 percent of the hate speech it finds. But in internal documents, researchers estimated that the company was removing less than 5 percent of all hate speech on Facebook." washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
This is a key point that researchers have been underlining for years. Facebook is often touting that it removes huge amounts of hate speech *that it finds*, but has never publicly admitted that there is a large universe of posts that never cross moderators' screens.
This is a key point in #MalignCreativity, the study I led @TheWilsonCenter around gendered abuse in the 2020 election. Because abusers are good at adapting to platform rules to avoid detection, their violative posts are often not found by platform systems. wilsoncenter.org/publication/ma…
Just because a woman’s work appears on the front page doesn’t mean that the constant psychological abuse she faces online doesn’t have offline effects. In fact, it’s the most high-profile women who receive inordinate abuse as a signal to others that their engagement is unwelcome.
We detail this in #MalignCreativity: wilsoncenter.org/publication/ma…
Online gendered abuse is not just “mean tweets”- it often affects women’s offline safety. It affects our relationships. It affects what work we pursue. It affects whether other women get involved in public life.
Online gendered abuse is not just “mean tweets”- it often affects women’s offline safety. It affects our relationships. It affects what work we pursue. It affects whether other women get involved in public life.
In a @EmbaixadaEUA webinar with inspiring women journalists from Brazil yesterday, we described this as a form of violence.
I noted: just like I deserve to feel safe walking home at night the way a man does, I deserve to feel safe expressing my opinion online the way men do.
I noted: just like I deserve to feel safe walking home at night the way a man does, I deserve to feel safe expressing my opinion online the way men do.
