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Dave Willner

@dwillner
9 posts
2025-01-10
Another obvious tell is the awkward inclusion of the specific term “transgenderism” (a rightwing shibboleth) into the policy language itself.  —  TL;DR - the fact checking drama is mostly a distraction from a much more grim set of changes.  🧵 11/11
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The Intercept

A look at Meta's convoluted or contradictory hate speech examples for user content moderators, allowing derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, and more

Meta is now granting its users new freedom to post a wide array of derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, ethnic groups …

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Instead, these below-the-fold changes are very clearly designed to avoid having to penalize people like Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene for the increasingly dehumanizing language they use against these specific groups.  You can tell because of the changes they *didn't* make.  🧵 9/11
2025-01-10 View on X
The Intercept

A look at Meta's convoluted or contradictory hate speech examples for user content moderators, allowing derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, and more

Meta is now granting its users new freedom to post a wide array of derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, ethnic groups …

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Folks are mostly missing the forest for the trees re: the recent Meta announcement.  Specifically, the focus on the move from fact checking to community notes.  There two different changes that are a much bigger deal that have received less focus.  🧵 1/11
2025-01-10 View on X
The Intercept

A look at Meta's convoluted or contradictory hate speech examples for user content moderators, allowing derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, and more

Meta is now granting its users new freedom to post a wide array of derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, ethnic groups …

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Instead, these below-the-fold changes are very clearly designed to avoid having to penalize people like Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene for the increasingly dehumanizing language they use against these specific groups.  You can tell because of the changes they *didn't* make.  🧵 9/11
2025-01-10 View on X
404 Media

Sources: many of Meta's employees are furious about its moderation changes allowing “allegations of mental illness” when based on “gender or sexual orientation”

See Substack as another illustration [embedded post] Olivier Simard-Casanova / @o.simardcasanova.net : While I don't dispute that there's a contingent of fascists in the Silicon Va...

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Folks are mostly missing the forest for the trees re: the recent Meta announcement.  Specifically, the focus on the move from fact checking to community notes.  There two different changes that are a much bigger deal that have received less focus.  🧵 1/11
2025-01-10 View on X
404 Media

Sources: many of Meta's employees are furious about its moderation changes allowing “allegations of mental illness” when based on “gender or sexual orientation”

See Substack as another illustration [embedded post] Olivier Simard-Casanova / @o.simardcasanova.net : While I don't dispute that there's a contingent of fascists in the Silicon Va...

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So, for example, you still cannot call all members of a specific religion mentally ill. I can't come up with a reason for that difference other than the fact that it would be frequently applied to Evangelicals and also isn't (currently) a meme on the American Right.  🧵 10/11
2025-01-10 View on X
404 Media

Sources: many of Meta's employees are furious about its moderation changes allowing “allegations of mental illness” when based on “gender or sexual orientation”

See Substack as another illustration [embedded post] Olivier Simard-Casanova / @o.simardcasanova.net : While I don't dispute that there's a contingent of fascists in the Silicon Va...

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Another obvious tell is the awkward inclusion of the specific term “transgenderism” (a rightwing shibboleth) into the policy language itself.  —  TL;DR - the fact checking drama is mostly a distraction from a much more grim set of changes.  🧵 11/11
2025-01-10 View on X
404 Media

Sources: many of Meta's employees are furious about its moderation changes allowing “allegations of mental illness” when based on “gender or sexual orientation”

See Substack as another illustration [embedded post] Olivier Simard-Casanova / @o.simardcasanova.net : While I don't dispute that there's a contingent of fascists in the Silicon Va...

View original
So, for example, you still cannot call all members of a specific religion mentally ill. I can't come up with a reason for that difference other than the fact that it would be frequently applied to Evangelicals and also isn't (currently) a meme on the American Right.  🧵 10/11
2025-01-10 View on X
The Intercept

A look at Meta's convoluted or contradictory hate speech examples for user content moderators, allowing derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, and more

Meta is now granting its users new freedom to post a wide array of derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, ethnic groups …

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2024-02-27
Conspiracy theories usually fail Occam's Razor, as this does.  No one at Google is conspiring to suppress the sale of goldfish.  That is not a thing that has a cabal behind it.  I mean for God's sake how would the woke anti-goldfish faction hope to evade public notice?  To what end? …
2024-02-27 View on X
Stratechery

While Google paused Gemini's image generation, its text generation tool also gives absurd responses, highlighting the need for open-source AI models to flourish

and it's going to be hard to fix Threads: Vishwanath Sarang / @vishwanathsarang : I guess there is finally a day when I disagree with @stratechery.  Do not attribute to over-engine...

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