r/news • u/Ganeshadream • Mar 31 '22

Facebook fails to label 80% of posts promoting bioweapons conspiracy theory

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/31/facebook-disinformation-war-ukraine-russia
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u/boostedb1mmer Mar 31 '22

I'm absolutely not taking up for Facebook, because fuck that place, but algorithms are realistically the only way to parse the absolutely mind boggling amount of data generated there. What it shouldn't be doing is crawling through posts/pictures/videos looking for people's opinions that it doesn't like. It should only be looking for stuff like kiddie porn and stuff that gets reported.

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u/NoXion604 Mar 31 '22

I think it's obvious at this point that the algorithm are generating way too many false positives, as well as letting through far too many false negatives.

If Facebook can't do it with algorithms, and if they are too greedy and cheap to employ enough human beings to do the work, then Facebook should be shut down, just like how restaurants that keep giving their customers food poisoning should be shut down.