🔥 LAST TALK on #BreadandNet 2021!
What are the implications of the #Facebook Papers for Arabic-speaking users, especially in light of the company's failure to adequately moderate #Arabic language content?
a very timely discussion with @Bissan_Fakih @DiaKayyali and @marwasf!
What are the implications of the #Facebook Papers for Arabic-speaking users, especially in light of the company's failure to adequately moderate #Arabic language content?
a very timely discussion with @Bissan_Fakih @DiaKayyali and @marwasf!
@Bissan_Fakih @DiaKayyali @marwasf "The #Facebook leaks reveal that it's the worst case scenario for Arabic speakers, although Arabic is a widely spoken language on the platform." @DiaKayyali
"There's bad moderation for a lot of users. At the same time, they're doing a horrible job at training their machine learning systems. These machine learning algorithms want to please Facebook, and they will act as they're trained." Dia
"We are not only fighting companies, we're fighting our own governments. With governments' human rights records in the region, I don't trust any of the 22 governments with respecting digital rights." @marwasf
"Unfortunately,we're consumers of technology in this region, so the ecosystem is already set from the global north, but the current discussions can change that." @marwasf
"Any legislation related to digital rights from the US and the EU can influence our region. There's a big role for people from the region working there. But it can be quite hard to convince US and EU lawmakers to think from a global point of view." Dia
"It's not a coincidence that no Arabic-speaking media outlet was allowed access to the #Facebook leaks. Our voices remain absent form these conversations. Haugen has a responsibility to reach out to organizations in the region." @marwasf
"@DiaKayyali: Anybody who has the press's attention, for whatever reason, needs to think of how what they're saying can harm the most vulnerable people affected by Facebook's decisions."
"Over a year ago #Facebook committed to doing independent auditing in India. A year later, we haven't hard anything about it. Nothing was published publicly. We need to make sure this doesn't happen in Palestine." @DiaKayyali
"There's absolutely a need for us as activists and organizations to reflect on cross-national, cross-regional solidarity. We can also learn tactics and understand patterns of censorship and ways in which communities can push against this." @marwasf
"At @mnemonicorg we've tracked content over-removal of human rights documentation: 77% of so-called terrorist/extremist content is improperly moderated. While on the other spectrum offensive content targeting the LGBTQ community is rarely taken down." @DiaKayyali
"One of the figures that was published in the @WSJ revealed that in 2020 Facebook allocated 3.2 million hours on searching and labeling disinformation content, but only 13% of those hours were dedicated to countries outside the US." @marwasf
"They want us to believe that it's a technical issue, but in fact its structural, it's material, it's physical. It's the time and money you spend and the resources you allocate to respond to the problems that result from your content moderation practices." @marwasf
"Facebook is not interested and doesn't care. It's as simple as that, the company is not willing to invest enough resources, whether in hiring content moderators or investing in making these automated systems run better." @marwasf
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