Timnit Gebru (she/her).Apr 15, 2023

This article by Tekendra Parmar is heartbreaking. Makes my blood boil that people like Yann LeCun still go around gaslighting us about "94% of hate speech taken down by AI" nonsense.
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-local-partners-say-hate-speech-stays-on-the-platform-2023-4

""One of the things that Facebook said was, 'We are not arbiters of truth,'"... "I remember asking, wouldn't it be better if Facebook was taking down posts, [rather] than having posts stay on the platform that could hurt people," the partner said.

Facebook's local partners say hate speech stays on the platform

Facebook's "trusted partners" in Ethiopia say the platform was slow to reply to urgent hate speech warnings and allowed hateful content to stay online.

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@timnitGebru terrible 💔
In my view/experience (I used to lead social media strategy/operations for ESPN Deportes, serving Spanish speakers in the U.S.), as badly lacking as moderation can be for English-speaking U.S. audiences, it’s magnitudes worse outside the U.S. and for non-English speaking audiences in the U.S. Speaking about Western dominated platforms, ones that originate in/focus on China/Korea/etc this would not apply.
Apr 15, 2023 at 9:21pmWeb