NEW: Internal Facebook memos show the company is instructing moderators to make sure graphic imagery of Ukrainians killed in Russian air strikes isn't deleted—meanwhile many Palestinian users doing the same w/ Israeli air strikes were censored this month
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Alex Hanna, formerly of the Ethical AI team at Google, talks about the AI principles that Google has adopted—after worker pressure—that prevent building tech that may do harm or violate international law.
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Chances are extremely unlikely that you will ever be in a situation where you are forced to save one drowning person or ten people on fire. Chances are much higher that you'll be in a union-busting situation, but somehow that's less interesting to the longtermist
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Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters scrubbed language on campaign website saying the 2020 election was stolen from Trump
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No punishment for use of force for the NYPD officer who ripped down a BLM protester’s face mask to pepper spray him in 2020 — and then bragged about it thecity.nyc/2022/8/29/2332
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Congratulations, this pleases precisely no one except guys that spent their life savings on NFTs in November
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Facebook tells moderators to allow graphic images of Russian air strikes, but censors Israeli attacks interc.pt/3Q8V1u9 by @samfbiddle, @alicesperi
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Great piece by providing yet another example of ’s double standards.
While it told moderators to allow graphic images of Russian air strikes in Ukraine, it censored Israeli attacks against Palestinians in Gaza.
With comments from me.
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Internal materials show that Meta also instructed moderators to preserve posts sharing Ukrainian state propaganda efforts, for example the "Close the Sky" video Zelensky presented to Congress pushing for a No Fly Zone enforced by the US
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I asked how a pic of a child and a video of a dead old man violated Meta policies against terrorism and did not receive a response. Meta also did not answer when asked what other content policies were allegedly violated by the dozens of other instances of unduly censored posts
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I shared 2 recent examples of censored Palestinian posts w/ Meta—a portrait of a 5 y.o. girl killed in an Israeli missile attack, and a video of a man being pulled from rubble—and a spokesperson said they were deleted per the Dangerous Organizations & Individuals policy
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In fact, the internal materials show that the one time Meta has intervened w/ its moderators in the Israeli military occupation, it was to protect imagery of the occupier under attack
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Rights advocates I spoke to ( ) say this is the latest example of a glaring double standard in how Meta treats different populations. Of course the Ukraine imagery is newsworthy and deserving of protection—but so are the deaths of other civilians
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It's been only 3 months since Israel killed Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh & already the White House has dropped any pretense of pressing for accountability in its meetings w/ Israeli officials. This is a shameful readout, . #JusticeforShireen
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there's a pretty fundamental problem here: if you want to make an unimpeachable case to the public that the president violated institutional secrecy law, it's going to be hard to do so while still retaining all of your precious institutional secrecy
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this is maybe literally the most dangerous possible thing someone in the business of technology can believe about technology
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If anyone feels threatened, it's probably because they are mismanaged. In other words, their own mismanagement are threatening themselves.
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gmail lawyer is slightly better than a yahoo mail lawyer I guess
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i love when NASA just tweets something like “Check this out — space sounds like the wailing of billions of souls trapped forever in Hell! They are calling for your blood! Wow!”
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