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Looking at some of the flaws in the algorithms that she has highlighted that says there is simply not enough transparency over the control facebook has over what we see on a new state. lets have a listen. there is a pattern of behaviour at facebook which is they are very good at dancing with data. if you go and read the transparency report the fraction that they are presenting is not total hate speech could divided by total hate speech that exists which is what you might expect given what they s...

Youre running all these expense, are you acting in the public good? but if we had at that and we could see patterns of behaviour and see whether or not trends are going. you work in the — whether or not trends are going. you work in the civic integrity team at facebook— work in the civic integrity team at facebook so if you saw something concerning — facebook so if you saw something concerning youth who would you put to? , , ., ., ~ concerning youth who would you put to? , to? this is a hu...

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Says the way engagement by striking was designed ? michael engagement—based ranking, facebook calls it meaningful social interactions, it could have been hate speech or bullying up until 2020 and still be considered meaningful so lets call it social interaction ranking. i have seen lots of research that says that kind of ranking, engagement—based ranking prioritises polarising extreme device of content. it doesnt matter if youre on the left or right, it pushes you to the extremes and advance...

Impact on your future behaviour of getting more like sport re—shares because they know if you get little hits of dopamine you are more likely to produce more content. so right now facebook has said repeatedly it is not in our business interest to optimise per head or to give people bad experiences but it is in their interest to make sure the content production wheel keeps turning because you wont look at ads if you feed doesnt keep you on the site. facebook has accepted the costs of engagement...

Group. we see these places as being, if you want to launch an advertising campaign with misinformation, we at least have a credit card to track you back. if you want to start a group and invite 1000 people every day, the limit is 2200 people you can invite every day, you can build up can invite every day, you can build up that group and your content will land in the news feed for a month and if they engage it will be considered valid. things like that make them very dangerous and they drive outs...

I was told at facebook we accomplish unimaginable things with far fewer resources than anyone would think possible. there is a culture that ionisers a start—up ethic that is in my opinion irresponsible. the idea the person who can figure out how to move the metric by cutting the most goners is good. the reality is it doesnt matter if facebook is spending $1a billion in safety a year, they should be spending 25 billion or 35 billion, that is a real question. right now there is no incentives int...

If the people who worked on it were open to taking the vaccinations that are necessary to protect them and their patients. global greenhouse gas emissions rose to record levels last year, despite the pandemic. the prime minister says hes worried next weeks cop26 climate summit may not reach agreement on solutions. and facebook whistleblower, frances haugen, is set to give evidence to mps, as they plan legislation which would impose new rules on social media networks — well bring that to you li...

Zuckerberg put out white paper in 2018 saying engagement with writing is dangerous unless the ai can take out about things and eat there getting 3—5% of things like hate speech. no .8% of violent society content. engagement—based ranking prioritises that kind of extreme content. i am deeply concerned about underinvestment in non—ridges and how they can mislead the public, but they are supporting them. facebook says things like we support 1500 is when in reality because of those i would jus...

To prioritise profits over people. what do you think regulators can do to persuade those big tech companies to behave differently? theres no company in the world that has as much power as facebook and as little transparency. in a statement, facebook said, "our deepest sympathies "are with the russell family. "as a company, we have invested $13 billion on safety "and security since 2016, and have more than a0,000 people "working in this area". the whistle—blower and the campaigner, working to m...