Sheryl Sandberg is asked about selling/sharing data. She says "we sell ads", implying they don't sell data. That's true, but no defense. Facebook sells users' attention to advertisers by profiling them based on extensive surveillance. That's the root problem. #techhearings
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Dorsey's own opening statement talked about incentives, and how the business models and incentives on these platforms interact with human/social dynamics. Kinda surprising that there aren't more questions on that: that's the crucial issue.
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That wasn't a mistake! It was by design. https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-hate-speech-censorship-internal-documents-algorithms …
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Have you listened to the Radiolab podcast about this issue? How Facebook got to that weird outcome doesn't seem related to ad incentives, just a pernicious outcome of their initial content rules. I agree with you that incentives are crazy important, but may not be issue here.
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Ditto. Same with other categories, like not counting “cunt” as gendered or abusive. Lots of linguistic biases regardless of profit model. Those are important too, given machine learning role etc.
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"I mean yes, it's regrettable... but it was just a side effect of our efforts to rapidly scale a new technology." –Mr.A. Hitler, CEO-Nazicorp
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