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2 Nov, 8 tweets, 3 min read
So, Facebook (semi)automatically creates a kind of discussion forum ('crisis response'), everyone in the affected area is notified about it and can post disturbing photos/videos or misinformation, completely unmoderated #wtf @facebook
Seriously, I CANNOT believe that FB doesn't even have dedicated moderation resources for these kinds of 'crisis response' forums.
The crisis started a few hours ago. It's ongoing and FB still lets people post toxic stuff every minute.

I thought I've seen every kind of irresponsible business conduct by this billion-dollar corporation, but this beats everything.
Taken together, 2 million people in Vienna have been hearing police sirens and helicopters over the whole city for many hours in the night. They were scared, disoriented, angry, etc.

Spreading videos of incidents and rumors is not helpful in this situation, also for police work.
Facebook did not only not give a sh*t, but was actively contributing to making things worse by operating an unmoderated city-wide discussion forum, and pushing everyone to participate.
"Since yesterday evening, our teams have been removing content from Facebook and Instagram related to the attack that violates our guidelines. This also applies to images and videos in our crisis response tool"

FB statement (auto-translate), according to:
derstandard.at/story/20001213…
Another FB statement. They promise that their experiences from the events in Vienna will flow into future product development. Just as cynical as always. horizont.at/digital/news/t…
FB also claims to use AI (🙄) and it claims that reported posts are reviewed.

I reported several posts and the only response I got is a confirmation that they received my reports, after hours. Still no follow up that my 'report has been reviewed'. I also heard this from others.

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Report: blog.appcensus.io/2020/09/15/rep…
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Apple: "no evidence that users have been harmed" 🙈🙉🙊

Industry associations: fighting against any regulation 🙈🙉🙊

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When the data industry is talking about sharing 'anonymized' profile data:

They do indeed not share email addresses, for example. But they share hashed versions of it, and they all use THE SAME hash function, and can thus still monitor and act on people across the digital world.
Calling this kind of personal data sharing 'anonymized' is corporate misinformation. A whole industry has been built on this lie.

Many still don't understand that.

Also, the question of whether or not you can reverse the hash is irrelevant, if everyone uses the same function.
Of course, hashed IDs can also be based on phone numbers or other data.

There are more complex versions of this, e.g. hashing the hashes, using temporary IDs and later match it to persistent ones, linking/matching chains of identifiers, using salted hashes for sub-purposes etc.
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