Category: content moderators

Facebook is reportedly testing a ‘virality circuit breaker’ to stop misinformation

Post author By Randall
Post date August 21, 2020
Categories In algorithms, center for american progress, content moderation, content moderators, Facebook, fact check, gear, misinformation, News, Tech, Viral, virality circuit breaker

[ad_1] Facebook does share info about viral news articles with its fact-checking partners, but CAP suggests that Facebook’s own team take a look at especially viral content. That makes a lot of sense, and you might wonder why Facebook hasn’t had a virality circuit breaker all along. The pandemic and misinformation around COVID-19 have highlighted […]

A New Zealand shooting video hit YouTube every second this weekend

Post author By Randall
Post date March 18, 2019
Categories In content moderators, gear, Google, hate speech, Internet, mass shooting, new zealand, Security, Tech, terrorism, tomorrow, Videos, Youtube
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[ad_1] The speed at which the videos were uploaded forced YouTube to take unprecedented measures. Under standard protocol, YouTube’s software flags troublesome content, which human moderators then review. But because the system was inundated, it let the AI software both flag and remove content it suspected to be problematic. As Neal Mohan, YouTube’s chief product […]