[ExI] ok this explains it

[BillK]

On Sun, 1 May 2022 at 14:33, spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Hey cool idea!  Twitter could make a slider bar where the user sets the desired filtering level.  There aughta be plenty of money available for Twitter to put some code jockeys on that task after the human moderators are no longer needed.
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> The user would find their comfort zone on two-axis political map, perhaps identify coordinates, then set a tolerance radius for ideas, or sketch the boundaries of their safe space.  Then the software would filter away anything too dangerous for them to be exposed to!  Rafal, this is brilliant as hell me lad.  We could keep people safe online make a buttload of money doing it.
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> spike
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See: <https://www.protocol.com/facebook-moderation-covid>
Quote:
"By outsourcing our jobs, Facebook implies that the 35,000 of us who
work in moderation are somehow peripheral to social media," the letter
read.
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So Facebook probably has about 35,000 moderators and they still can't
keep up with the horrors being posted.
(Not all these moderators are Facebook employees. Facebook also
subcontracts moderation to companies in countries where wages are
low).

See: <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58408781>
Quote:
While Twitter has never formally said how many human moderators it
uses, a 2020 report by New York business school NYU Stern suggested
that it had about 1,500 to cope with the 199 million daily Twitter
users worldwide.
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But Twitter flags far fewer bad tweets than Facebook flags bad posts.
Twitter has a policy to generally not moderate tweet content. They
suggest users block or unfollow offensive users.
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BillK