Meta Mistake - Social Media Is Sucio

[Day]

Of course you find a way to make it about race.

my man is obsessed with the white folks

[6souls]

https://www.protocol.com/policy/face...grity-holdouts

Facebook tested a group of users to see how they would react if no "protections" were put in place for their viewing habits.

According to one internal report from April 2019, Facebook has studied the impact of removing some protections against problematic content like clickbait and untrustworthy news for some users, but the results, at least in that report, were decidedly mixed.

The report showed that during one March 2019 test, when the company rolled back some protections from millions of users' News Feeds, their exposure to some of the worst forms of harmful content, like graphic violence, barely changed. As the report's author wrote, referring to the company's news feed protections at the time, "We are likely having little (if any) impact on violence."

The report also suggested that far from using Facebook less, integrity holdouts actually commented more and had more sessions on the app. "Given that Integrity is changing a ranking algorithm that is optimized for engagement, it is not surprising that integrity has some negative engagement impact," the report read.

"Testing product and safety features is an important part of improving our platform and something that's standard in tech and many other industries," Facebook spokesperson Drew Pusateri told Protocol, noting that the holdout affected about 2% of Facebook users. "It helps us build the tools to reduce the prevalence of hate speech and other types of problematic content on our platform."

"11% of users see content that has been marked as disturbing every day; 16% of users see content that is likely to be bullying; 39% of users see hateful content (i.e. borderline hate); 32% of users see borderline 3+ nudity content," the author wrote. "These are significant proportions of [daily active users] and we have effectively no ranking interventions in place to mitigate this." The author added, however, that those particular numbers "should be taken with a grain of salt," as measuring bad experiences on the platform was still a work in progress.

The report also made no secret of the negative impact of News Feed integrity protections on engagement. "By definition, Integrity is going to cause some engagement regression," the author wrote, noting that there are "tradeoffs between Integrity and Engagement."

[Lokus]

Seems like all my previous searches on Twitter have mysteriously been cleared and in it's place is only one most recent search for Meta. Very spooby

[Gwynplaine]

Can I just point out that I think this whole concept of a "metaverse" is really undeserved and stupid. It's just a pretentious term for video games and using an internet community. I'm already sick of it.

[synistar]

Twitter updated their private information policy - https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topic...-policy-update

In addition to the previous policy that encompasses all doxxing , it is now a violation to share "media of private individuals without the permission of the person(s) depicted."

Cue the incoming shitstorm.

[NynJa]

Karens spoke to twitters manager and told them they dont like being filmed.

[Cail]

https://twitter.com/postworld/status...531945473?s=21

[Mertron]

lol

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1...772776450?s=20

[6souls]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-59901366

Instagram, by request of Iran, blocked the hashtag #IWillLightACandletoo which is meant to memorialize the crash of the Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752. Iran's military had shot the airliner down. The ban lasted 24 hours which afterwards Insta said it was a "mistake" on their part.

[Gwynplaine]

Court orders the discovery of communications of Zuckerberg and Sandberg dating all the way to 2007 in a suit related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal that rigged the election for Trump.

https://twitter.com/jason_kint/statu...753007115?s=20

https://twitter.com/PayAttentionYo/s...577270793?s=20

[Tomiko]

Not sure if Valisk™ already posted this in another thread, but one of the mods of r/antiwork did an interview with Fox News the other day and it went about as well as you'd expect. I have no idea how this person was chosen as their best representative. Especially to go on Fox News of all places. The subreddit is currently set to private because of all this.

r/OutOfTheLoop post with Cliff Notes.

Answer: One of the Moderators at AntiWork just recently did an interview with Fox News, setting themselves up as the leader/organiser of this sudden, large community and movement.

You can find the interview: https://youtu.be/3yUMIFYBMnc

Just aesthetically, it’s a poor look. They’re disheveled, wearing a random hoodie, sitting in the dark of an untidy room without any lighting. It’s like they’re going to an interview before thousands of people and haven’t given a second to actually thinking about their presentation. They look exactly the part Fox wants to paint them- a lazy, unmotivated person looking for a handout.

The interview starts okay, they repeat some talking points, and get a bit of the message across. Then the Fox interviewer completely turns it around and picks them apart- showcasing them as a 30+ year old dogwalker, who works about 25hrs a week and has minimal aspirations besides maybe teaching philosophy. The Mod completely goes along with these questions, the whole interview becomes about them rather than the movement and by the end the Fox interviewer is visibly laughing.

So this goes live and does the rounds. People on Reddit and everywhere else are laughing at this since it makes the entire movement appear to be a joke, this is their leader, etc.

People on Antiwork are indignant- how did this person get chosen to represent the movement? Why were they chosen? Why did they interview with Fox? Etc etc

The classic Reddit crackdown begins, Antiwork begins removing threads and comments on the topic and banning users who talk about it. That subsides after a while and threads are allowed- because of this whole thing the threads are taking up a large portion of the front page and the discussion. Almost certainly the Mod in question is being hounded in PMs and the team is being hounded in Modmail.

And eventually the classic Reddit crackdown reaches its classic zenith, “Locked because y’all can’t behave.” so the whole sub got locked.

Most likely the mods are waiting for the furror to die down and the people coming into the sub from the interview to go away.

Edit: I’ve been corrected that the Mod only actually works about 10hrs a week. I was just repeating what was in the interview.

[Vaspinne]

Tl:Dr I'm getting from reddit is in 3 minutes, this guy took the fasting growing sub on Reddit and fucking destroyed it by being an incompetent, entitled little shit lol

[Tomiko]

Tl:Dr I'm getting from reddit is in 3 minutes, this guy took the fasting growing sub on Reddit and fucking destroyed it by being an incompetent, entitled little shit lol

I added in the top response for those not wanting to click the link, but pretty much. Instead of choosing someone who wanted better working conditions, they go with the one that doesn't want to work. lol

[Tomiko]

Almost forgot to mention this piece of info that came up in r/LifeProTips

Screencaps from Doreen’s fb page have been posted to workreform and a few other subs. It’s pretty bad.

Basically, they had a roommate that they claim had a FWB situation the roommate wanted to stop. But Doreen didn’t want it to stop, so they started masturbating next to roommate while roommate was sleeping. Roommate asked them to stop multiple times, but Doreen didn’t want to, and kept escalating to things like putting the unconscious roommates hand on Doreen’s penis. It’s “ok”, because Doreen has “poor impulse control”. Also, it’s really Doreen’s roommates fault because she had past trauma. And Doreen is the real victim, because they feel so bad about sexually assaulting someone they have PTSD now. Also, Doreen donated some money to a charity for sexual assault victims, so everything is all better…

Someone posted a link to the screenshots of the actual posts.

[Byrthnoth]

I doubt the subreddit exactly voted for who got interviewed on Fox News. Typically a network reaches out to individuals (perhaps selected for how terribly they would represent their side) until someone says yes.

Generally the least self-aware people are the most willing to talk.

[Fondue]

lmao

[Melena]

From what I read, so take it with a grain of salt, that moron went rogue. They didn't want anyone to do the interview.

[Krandor]

From what I had seen on the various synopsis posts on reddit the mods talked it out amongst each other (without involving any of the users of the subreddit) and they convinced everyone else to let them do it because they had "experience" talking to the media before.

[Xno Kappa]

From what I had seen on the various synopsis posts on reddit the mods talked it out amongst each other (without involving any of the users of the subreddit) and they convinced everyone else to let them do it because they had "experience" talking to the media before.

Yeah this is the version I've read.

I don't know shit about the subreddit or their true message, but they might want to spruce up their vetting process when it comes to nationally televised interviews lol. What occurred is inexcusable since they have "experience."