Loving @lessin's recent essays on feeds and algorithms and speech. I don't always agree but his thinking is nuanced and principled and worth understanding/discussing. This morning's one is a very good read.https://www.theinformation.com/articles/on-feed-ranking-and-free-speech …
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@lessin or@Jessicalessin should figure out a way for this to live outside the paywall!1 reply 0 retweets 3 likesShow this thread -
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@rsg's longstanding criticism that the news feed is effectively selectively moderating the content already bc it's optimizing for engagement, and that in and of itself is a conscious, biased choice.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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I think that's an older view of how feed algorithms work - most platforms have a more nuanced view (FB has spoken in public about optimizing for meaningful social interaction, Twitter on healthier conversation)
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if they change the inputs, it's still effectively selective moderation; just different targets.
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I'm not sure what "moderation" means in this context. At some point you have to filter by some sieve and not show everything everyone is publishing but calling that "moderation" seems a stretch to me. Even reverse chronological sort is moderation then.
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I think he's making a false distinction between moderation involving some direct human participation on a piece of content-by-content basis vs. moderation algorithmically (where the overarching system's incentives/goals are still chosen by humans)
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