I have no respect for Mark Zuckerberg after seeing this video. https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1187179399386288135
I do not trust FB with my emotions. I am surely not going to trust them with my money!!
Hot take: if you want to stop political advertising that contains "lies" then maybe also stop politicians from lying point blank during speeches / debates.
Also hot take: political candidates target local rallies based on racial & gender demographics. Why should it be illegal to do that on a digital platform?
How can Facebook find if something is a lie? You can build models to identify pornographic content, hate speeches and prevent targeting ads to specific diaspora of people but it's impossible to detect if something is a lie. That's because the underlying sources are biased and even people are biased.
Manually fact checking reported content before elections
Why can’t the voters manually fact check things and make their own decision? I think that’s what Zuckerberg was trying to get at in the clip posted. Its not the responsibility of Facebook, nor should it be imo, to decide what’s a fact and what’s a lie.
I’d say I have no respect for Congress after watching the whole hearing but that isn’t possible because I already lost any respect I ever had for them during the last one.
I have no respect for this bartender girl after seeing this video. But actually... before this video too)))
Bartender girl? She’s an elected congresswoman. Open your eyes a bit to increase your knowledge!!
If as elected congresswoman she still thinks as a bartender girl. Don’t see any reason to listen to her ideas after Amazon NY. Especially I see how she increased your knowledge))
There are 2 parts to the issue: 1. Allowing lies on any platform. Everyone agrees this is wrong and shouldn't be allowed. 2. Find a technical solution which works at scale. We can not hide behind this and say not doable so it's OK. This means companies will do ethical things as far as they can find a technical solution otherwise not.
How do you define a lie? (Versus opinion, versus hyperbole) and how do you source the data to determine if something is true. What if the truth "changes". Its easy to say find a technical solution..... I think we are better off being forced to label things rather than qualifying them
By that logic the whole fact checking anything is BS which FB claims to do. And this is the implementation part.
From that video it felt like she wasn’t really interested in answers.
I don't think this is a reasonable line of questioning. The government should set up regulations for what politicians are allowed to advertise first. If it's not in the law, how is Facebook supposed to determine how egregious of a "lie" is so bad it needs to be pulled, vs. when it would be censorship of an opinion that merely contained misleading statistics or arguments?
So stupid, ask AOC to write the NLP code to truthify each article in real time.
Maybe the idea is that they'd be evaluated by humans like thousands of other Facebook ads. 🤔
Oh yea, because humans are unbiased.