Two years and 100 pages later the report concludes “the result of Zuckerberg’s policies is a two-tier system where ordinary users are treated differently to politicians, a situation that could have dire effects on the outcome of the November election. Facebook has been far too reluctant to adopt strong rules to limit misinformation and voter suppression. It confounds the auditors as to why Facebook has failed to grasp the urgency.” “Facebook should do everything in its power to prevent its tools and algorithms from driving people toward self-reinforcing echo chambers of extremism, failure to do so can have dangerous (and life-threatening) real-world consequences.” One of the areas the auditor highlighted was anti-Muslim hate speech, pointing out that Facebook directed users to increasingly dangerous posts promoting white nationalism.” IMO the damage this company is doing to society is immeasurable. Facebook needs to be regulated, possibly broken up and hit with civil penalties. https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/akz7qa/facebook-finally-agreed-to-a-civil-rights-audit-and-surprise-surprise-it-failed
Their stock is doing really great.
FB must have lost their mind to agree to such a thing lol. Why don’t they just save everyone the confusion and just say it’s their platform and they’ll run it as they choose. Why entertain the crazies?
They’re trying to have their cake and eat it. Continue to drive policies that maximise profit while trying to appease their critics. The honest truth is they have a major problem. Censorship isn’t feasible at scale and would kill their profit margins but AI isn’t advanced enough yet to handle it.
This is why we are so divided as a country. Echo chamber, filter bubble, etc. a persons beliefs are reinforced by suggested content based on what they searched previously. That is how Americans could feel so inspired to , as extreme example, go fight for Isis
People want fb to fix society but also get upset when it does anything to regulate speech...
I think the “people” would just settle for banning hate speech.
Hate speech is already banned and has been since the beginning...
Filter bubbles can be bad, but some of the claims are ridiculous. FB causes voter suppression? So if you install the app, you can't check the box to register to vote when getting a driver's license? Can't access Secretary of State website? They go in your mailbox and throw out you voter pamphlet or ballot?
No, the claim is that by allowing Trump or any politician to claim that voting by mail is fraudulent it discourages people from voting. Under current policies exempting politicians from any restrictions, Trump could even say he’s moved the election back a week to discourage voting. Don’t put it past him!
Agreed