Thread by @RebeccaTaylorNY

👋🏻 live-tweeting from @sxsw today

First up…

🎤 @FrancesHaugen: The Facebook Whistleblower

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3 Truths about Facebook's Censorship
💭 Al Censorship is ineffective
💭 Al Censorship does not scale
for a diverse world
💭 Al Censorship distracts from real solutions
that protect free speech

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In 2019
💭 12% of Facebook posters in the US
made up 80% of Speech
💭 1% of posters in some countries
made up 80% of Speech

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“Once we don’t agree on shared facts, we don’t have a path back to reconciliation.”
🎤@FrancesHaugen / @sxsw

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My mom always told me, “Be careful what you select for, because you’ll get it.” Machine learning works the same way. The AI has to have humans watching to correct.
🎤@FrancesHaugen / @sxsw

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💭If you click on something about the election, suddenly it tells you about an assassination conspiracy plot. A whole cottage industry sprung up.

💭Fake news is way more compelling than real news.

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💭 Content Based solutions don't scale for
a linguistically diverse world.

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Facebook is a closed system. We can’t download results. And our experience is personalized. FB has used this to its advantage and kept the curtain closed.
— 🎤@FrancesHaugen / @sxsw

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Meta/Facebook gives the most reach to the most extreme ideas. And they keep it that way because it makes them more money.
—🎤@FrancesHaugen / @sxsw

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65% of people who joined neo-Nazi Facebook groups in Germany, joined them because Facebook suggested them 😱
🎤@FrancesHaugen / @sxsw

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A coder created a tool helping users unfollow groups they weren’t meaning to be subscribed to, and Facebook threatened to sue him.
—🎤@FrancesHaugen / @sxsw

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Groups are the gasoline that is ignited by the algorithm. —🎤@FrancesHaugen / @sxsw

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The solution here is third party fact checking. But third party fact checking isn’t free. And moderators often get PTSD.
—🎤@FrancesHaugen / @sxsw

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Twitter’s requirement that you click a link before you share it, lowers misinformation by 10-15% — which is the same as Facebook’s third party fact checking system and doesn’t involve censorship. —🎤@FrancesHaugen / @sxsw

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