Wow, das ist eine Kampfansage: @MarkZuckss jetzt auf einer Linie mit @elonmusk, bringt #Facebook & #Instagram in Frontalopposition zu den EU- und DE-Konzepten der #Inhalteüberwachung im Internet: "back to the roots".
https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1876612227807236310
„We built a lot of complex systems to moderate content. But the problem with complex systems is: the make mistakes. Even if they accidentally censor just 1 % of posts, that’s millions of people. We have reached a point where it’s just too many mistakes and too much censorship.”
“The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech.”
“So we’re going back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms (sic!)."
"More specifically here is what we’re going to do:
First, we’re going to get rid of #factcheckers and replace them with community notes similar to X, starting in the US."
First, we’re going to get rid of #factcheckers and replace them with community notes similar to X, starting in the US."
"[...] legacy media wrote nonstop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy. We tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth. But factcheckers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they created.”
“[...] simplify our #contentpolicies and get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like #immigration and #gender [...] What started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down and shut out people with different ideas.”
"Third, we are changing how we enforce to reduce the mistakes that account for the vast majority of censorship on our platforms. We used to have filters that scanned for any policy violation."
"Now, we are going to focus those filters on tackling illegal and high severity violations. And for lower severity violations we’re going to rely on someone reporting an issue before we take action.”
"The problem is that the #filters make mistakes and they take down a lot of content that they shouldn’t. So by dialing them back, we’re going to dramatically reduce the amount of #censorship on our platforms.”
“... going to tune our content filters to require much higher confidence before taking down content. ... this is a tradeoff. It means that we’re going to catch less bad stuff, but we also reduce the number of innocent people’s posts and accounts that we accidentally take down."
“We are bringing back civic content. For a while, the community asked to see less politics because it was making people stressed. So we stopped recommending these posts. [...] we’re in a new era now. And we’re getting feedback that people want to see this content again.”
"Fifth, we’re going to move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of #California, and our US-based content review is going to be based in #Texas.”
“As we work to promote free expression, I think that will help build trust to do this work in places where there is less concern about the bias of our teams."
“Finally, we’re going to work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world, going after American companies and pushing to censor more. The U.S. has the strongest protection for free expression in the world."
"Europe has an ever increasing number of laws institutionalizing censorship and making it difficult to build anything innovative here.”
“Latin American countries have secret courts that can order companies to quietly take things down. China has censored our apps from even working in the country."
"The only way that we can push back on this global trend is with the support of the U.S. government. And that’s why it has been so difficult over the past four years, when even the U.S. government has pushed for censorship.”
"By going after us and other American companies, it has emboldened other governments to go even further. But now we have the opportunity to restore free expression and I am excited to take it.”
“There’s a lot of illegal stuff that we still need to work very hard to remove. ... after ... content moderation work focused primarily on removing content, it is time to focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our systems & getting back to our roots about giving people voice.”
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