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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 14 Mar 2019

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      this is actually deeply irritating to me ive worked at lots of tech companies large and small in data/ml roles you have to understand every one of them is held together with the equivalent of duct tape and fortuitously growing barnacles, no one understands how the systems workhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1106374706674847745 …

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      as if the tech giants actually understand their own codebases Facebook: omnipotent demonic political Meddler Also Facebook: down since yesterday at the cost of probably billions of dollars to themselves
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    2. Reginald P. Grant‏ @ReginaldPGrant 15 Mar 2019
      Replying to @eigenrobot

      It's not plausible that the bias against conservatives isn't intentional at this point though- and it is a problem.

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    3. Emma‏ @geekethics 15 Mar 2019
      Replying to @ReginaldPGrant @eigenrobot

      The idea that any outcome like that is intentional isn't plausible. That's just not the kind of control people have over their codebases.

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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 15 Mar 2019
      Replying to @geekethics @ReginaldPGrant

      I think he's actually correct but it's not really in the codebase

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    5. Emma‏ @geekethics 15 Mar 2019
      Replying to @eigenrobot @ReginaldPGrant

      Two different senses of bias I guess? If we mean things like active intervention to take down specific pages then sure it's intentional, though I'd call that deliberate censorship more than bias. If we mean favouring certain content that's not under deliberate control.

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    6. Reginald P. Grant‏ @ReginaldPGrant 15 Mar 2019
      Replying to @geekethics @eigenrobot

      It's clear that the algorithms aren't simply allowed to run- there is active interference to for instance- strip blue checks from right wing people, specifically ban/suspend right wing people, the whole "learn to code" thing, to suppress right wing hashtags & boost left wing ones

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    7. Emma‏ @geekethics 15 Mar 2019
      Replying to @ReginaldPGrant @eigenrobot

      Wait, you think "learn to code" is a thing because of active intervention by the employees of social media companies? That's ... a weird thing to believe. Memes happen because of users not because of interference.

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    8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 15 Mar 2019
      Replying to @geekethics @ReginaldPGrant

      naw but they suspend/ban people who say it to bluechecks now

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    9. Emma‏ @geekethics 15 Mar 2019
      Replying to @eigenrobot @ReginaldPGrant

      They do? That seems such an incredible waste of time. Well, more fool them I guess.

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 15 Mar 2019
      Replying to @geekethics @ReginaldPGrant

      It's probably rational in some sense. Plausible to me that Twitter actually does need (or thinks they need) to cater to bluecheck needs for (reasons????). Also possible it's rational on some internal level--integrity team benefits at cost of broader company or whatever

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        1. Reginald P. Grant‏ @ReginaldPGrant 15 Mar 2019
          Replying to @eigenrobot @geekethics

          But again, unevenly enforced- Kurt Schlichter is a blue check, as is Tucker Carlson- and Carlson has a bigger platform than a dozen left wing blue checks who are protected combined, but they are not protected.

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        2. Emma‏ @geekethics 15 Mar 2019
          Replying to @eigenrobot @ReginaldPGrant

          The idea of "bluechecks" as a category of like ... stakeholders? ... seems utterly alien to how I understand the site. But maybe I just don't hang out in the kinds of circles where such an idea makes sense.

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        3. Reginald P. Grant‏ @ReginaldPGrant 15 Mar 2019
          Replying to @geekethics @eigenrobot

          It does make sense- twitter is actually a weird kind of cuckoo; it's business model is mostly coopting news platforms by tricking them into posting tweets of their scoops instead of the stories and robbing news sites of traffic and subs. . .

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