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Mar 31 6 tweets 2 min read
At #disruptedtimes22, @cori_crider says that the debate over algorithmic government went from thin to non-existent (modulo human rights groups worried about state surveillance) but it has now exploded.
Fuck the algorithm, NHS sharing with Google, robo-debt - this is algorithmic governance policy going mainstream
FB mods who speak Russian and other Eastern European languages are on the coalface. They say the company is either unwilling or unable to deal with total information war
Mods are served content in languages they don't speak, and when they see obvious information ops, there is no way to report this
Traditional antitrust says this isn't a harmful dominance story, but @FrancesHaugen tells us FB spends pittances on non-English moderation
This is a company whose market power creates harm.

She ends by calling for lawyers (and others) to help @Foxglovelegal to make good trouble

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