It resulted in death. That seems a key detail. Do you think that aspect matters?
It was raised with them, they didn’t act and someone died. They have no responsibility for spreading death threats?
If that content is ok, what content is not ok?
It was raised with them, they didn’t act and someone died. They have no responsibility for spreading death threats?
If that content is ok, what content is not ok?
If they don't have enough resources to review the outputs from their algorithm, then to bad, just show posts from friends only.
> Eight days after the elder Amare was murdered, Facebook finally removed the post, according to the researcher.
Doesn't sound like they "actively policed" the content sufficiently.
If an ethnic conflict occurs in a relatively obscure region are they going to spin up new moderators on the AWS spot market?
These things aren’t perfect or fast.
See that's the problem with omniscience, you kind of need it to police EVERYTHING. Something will always make it through.
The same is true for venues, sports, shops, workplaces, etc... why not software companies?
People commit crimes inside businesses all the time, and under most circumstances the owner of a business is not liable for damages resulting from a third-party committing a crime on their property. People also use various communication tools to advocate and plan crimes, and the operators of those tools are almost never liable.
What's different here is that Facebook makes decisions about what content to show to people. It uses an algorithm to do so, and it is aware that the algorithm has a tendency to promote violent content. While I'm broadly for platform immunity, that seems like a good situation to add an exception.
How that was handled. Had they seen human review and wrongly rejected? Was it thrown up the chain and a VP said “fuck then skinnies!”? Was it just lost in a message queue?
All in all, this reminds me a bit of the old joke “The mail man is my drug dealer, and he doesn’t even know it.”
Well, if I mail a letter to the Post Master telling him my neighbor buys fentanyl via the post and he doesn’t read it in time, I can’t blame him for not getting to it… barring dereliction.
So, no, blanket hating FB here is just smooth-brain outrage culture.
sharing the flight plan of an airplane, apparently.
the reality is, these people truly do understand how posts impact real world safety. they fully understand and are outraged if the posts are directed in anyway towards their group—they just don’t care, or maybe worse.