Facebook's election management system for 2019/20 by degree of effort.
“tier zero" Highest. US, Brazil, and India.
"tier one" Germany, Indonesia, Iran, Israel and Italy
"tier two" 22 countries
"tier three" rest of the world
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“tier zero" Highest. US, Brazil, and India.
"tier one" Germany, Indonesia, Iran, Israel and Italy
"tier two" 22 countries
"tier three" rest of the world
platformer.news/p/-the-tier-li…
Tier one and two: Social AIs to automatically ID and block speech classified as hateful or incorrect. Staffed war rooms. Viral content suppression teams. Intelligence operations.
Automation: Efforts to build social AIs to manage elections and enhance social stability in any country deemed to be at risk (a great many).
"after a country is designated a 'priority,' it typically takes a year to build classifiers... to improve enforcement"
"after a country is designated a 'priority,' it typically takes a year to build classifiers... to improve enforcement"
Why the acceleration in social control efforts? One answer: pressure
"It’s also clear that they are facing external pressures over which they have no control — the rising right-wing authoritarianism of the United States (Trump) and India (Modi) did not begin on the platform"
"It’s also clear that they are facing external pressures over which they have no control — the rising right-wing authoritarianism of the United States (Trump) and India (Modi) did not begin on the platform"
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