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    1. Ben Collins‏Verified account @oneunderscore__ 12 Apr 2019

      Ben Collins Retweeted Max Woolf

      No matter how positive of a development, like being the first person to take a photo of a black hole, YouTube's algorithm will reward the most extreme, almost universally negative version of any topic. It's not just baked into the cake. It is the cake.https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/1116761154141876224 …

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      Max WoolfVerified account @minimaxir
      YouTube algorithm vs. Katie Bouman pic.twitter.com/3TABQ2vitN
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    2. Ben Collins‏Verified account @oneunderscore__ 12 Apr 2019

      Ben Collins Retweeted Andrew Chael

      This garbage started on Reddit, where people looked through Bouman's GitHub to try to "prove" she didn't put in the work on the black hole image. It's all over "men's rights" subreddits like r/MGTOW. Here's her colleague explaining how they're wrong.https://twitter.com/thisgreyspirit/status/1116518544961830918 …

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      Andrew Chael @thisgreyspirit
      (1/7) So apparently some (I hope very few) people online are using the fact that I am the primary developer of the eht-imaging software library (https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging …) to launch awful and sexist attacks on my colleague and friend Katie Bouman. Stop.
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      Ben Collins‏Verified account @oneunderscore__ 12 Apr 2019

      New from me: In search results for Katie Bouman, the woman who helped create the first image of a black hole, Instagram and YouTube push disinformation from misogynist communities and imposter accounts above facts.https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/first-picture-black-hole-made-katie-bouman-overnight-celebrity-then-n994081 …

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        2. Ben Collins‏Verified account @oneunderscore__ 12 Apr 2019

          When users tried to find Katie Bouman, the researcher whose algorithm discovered the first ever image of a black hole, they got this “official” account first. That account spreads a misogynist lie that Bouman didn’t do the work, plus incel verbiage. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/first-picture-black-hole-made-katie-bouman-overnight-celebrity-then-n994081 …pic.twitter.com/EmCB0RxCwS

          19 replies 354 retweets 1,257 likes
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        3. Ben Collins‏Verified account @oneunderscore__ 12 Apr 2019

          There’s no other way to put it: these platforms are contributing to historical erasure. Incels and racists know how to game algorithms in invisible ways. YouTube and Facebook refuse to meet this challenge head on, letting them literally rewrite history.https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/first-picture-black-hole-made-katie-bouman-overnight-celebrity-then-n994081 …

          55 replies 1,290 retweets 3,356 likes
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        4. Ben Collins‏Verified account @oneunderscore__ 12 Apr 2019

          Instagram/Facebook simply did not respond when we flagged to them that an incel was running an “official” account that was the top search when users looked up Katie Bouman, the woman whose algorithm found the first picture of a black hole this week.https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/first-picture-black-hole-made-katie-bouman-overnight-celebrity-then-n994081 …

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        5. Ben Collins‏Verified account @oneunderscore__ 12 Apr 2019

          Update: They just got back to me asking me what her real account is. Do people have to have an Instagram account for the company to take down the incel account clearly impersonating them? Do they have any sort of process there at all?

          24 replies 248 retweets 1,981 likes
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        6. Ben Collins‏Verified account @oneunderscore__ 12 Apr 2019

          I will never understand why these companies don’t view disinformation pushed by incels and racists getting white glove treatment by their algorithm as an immediate crisis in need of emergency repair—and trust me, they do not.

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        1. Matt Birnbaum‏ @BirnbaumMatt 12 Apr 2019
          Replying to @oneunderscore__

          Wait for Tucker to do 20 minutes on Bouman’s “anti-male” supporters tonight

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        2. Turing Radius‏ @TuringRadius 13 Apr 2019
          Replying to @LoJiKuLJohn @oneunderscore__ and

          smh. Just imagine how good their system would be if they weren't spending most of their resources on DMCA takedown fallout (both rebuttals for erroneously taken down content by their bots and training the bots to do the removals)?

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        2. mea culpa‏ @nowuvdunnit 12 Apr 2019
          Replying to @oneunderscore__ @BrandyZadrozny

          *Dr. Katie Bouman **the computer scientist Please show her the professional respect she is due.

          3 replies 5 retweets 48 likes
        3. Seán‏ @seanforeilly 12 Apr 2019
          Replying to @nowuvdunnit @oneunderscore__ @BrandyZadrozny

          I support what you're trying to do here, but this thread is literally about her getting the recognition and respect she deserves.

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