Yes, moderating 1.5 billion people is hard. But 1.5 billion users gives Facebook a market cap of $370 billion. It has to invest in content.
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It's hard if all you got is rigid rules or algorithms. Skilled editors do this all the time. http://time.com/4484905/facebook-censorship-napalm-girl-newspaper-editor-norway/ …pic.twitter.com/bbhHir6Z3j
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So now Facebook is deleting posts by the Prime Minister of Norway.


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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Mark Scott
And what now? Will all the news about this incident be deleted as well?https://twitter.com/markscott82/status/774280533790646273 …
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Some remove a 3.5mm jack, others reinstate a Pulitzer-prize winning photo.
#courage But, hey, see last sentence. https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/774307644110544896 …zeynep tufekci added,
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"Protecting the community by removal" "our global community" etc. There is no global community. There's 1.5 billion users, and one platform.
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Facebook's business model wants simple rules that it can give even new employees on a few pages—or algorithms—to scale. It doesn't scale.
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FB trending algorithm plus "engineer" ? vetting team is now letting 9/11 truther stories trend on anniversary week. https://twitter.com/mjcontrera/status/774212549826977792 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jim Donahue
Yikes. I also saw stuff trending on Hillary Clinton's alleged health woes that was absolute bizarro garbage.https://twitter.com/otherjimdonahue/status/774272627426942977 …
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i just want an X to turn the section off by now :(pic.twitter.com/rYkHps13sB
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it's all borderline inexplicable.
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what will it actually take for FB to change this? they must see this is a problem in QA tests now... right?
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