JimBowie1958
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To the left anyone left of Mittens Romney is a White Supremacist.
Is this merely a cover for further purges of conservatives from Twitter?
Report: Twitter Employee Claims Company's 'White Supremacy Algorithm' Could Target Republican Politicians | Breitbart
āMost people can agree a beheading video or some kind of ISIS content should be proactively removed, but when we try to talk about the alt-right or white nationalism, we get into dangerous territory, where weāre talking about [Iowa Rep.] Steve King or maybe even some of Trumpās tweets, so it becomes hard for social media companies to say all of this āthis content should be removed,āā Amarasingam said.
āThereās going to be controversy here that we didnāt see with ISIS, because there are more white nationalists than there are ISIS supporters, and white nationalists are closer to the levers of political power in the US and Europe than ISIS ever was.ā
To the left anyone left of Mittens Romney is a White Supremacist.
Is this merely a cover for further purges of conservatives from Twitter?
Report: Twitter Employee Claims Company's 'White Supremacy Algorithm' Could Target Republican Politicians | Breitbart
The employee argued that, on a technical level, content from Republican politicians could get swept up by algorithms aggressively removing white supremacist material. Banning politicians wouldnāt be accepted by society as a trade-off for flagging all of the white supremacist propaganda, he argued.
There is no indication that this position is an official policy of Twitter, and the company told Motherboard that this āis not [an] accurate characterization of our policies or enforcementāon any level.ā But the Twitter employeeās comments highlight the sometimes overlooked debate within the moderation of tech platforms: are moderation issues purely technical and algorithmic, or do societal norms play a greater role than some may acknowledge?
Amarnath Amarasingam, an extremism researcher at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, discussed why there may be issues with algorithmically removing white supremacist content on Twitter telling Motherboard:There is no indication that this position is an official policy of Twitter, and the company told Motherboard that this āis not [an] accurate characterization of our policies or enforcementāon any level.ā But the Twitter employeeās comments highlight the sometimes overlooked debate within the moderation of tech platforms: are moderation issues purely technical and algorithmic, or do societal norms play a greater role than some may acknowledge?
āMost people can agree a beheading video or some kind of ISIS content should be proactively removed, but when we try to talk about the alt-right or white nationalism, we get into dangerous territory, where weāre talking about [Iowa Rep.] Steve King or maybe even some of Trumpās tweets, so it becomes hard for social media companies to say all of this āthis content should be removed,āā Amarasingam said.
āThereās going to be controversy here that we didnāt see with ISIS, because there are more white nationalists than there are ISIS supporters, and white nationalists are closer to the levers of political power in the US and Europe than ISIS ever was.ā