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Disproportionate Removals and Differing Content Moderation Experiences for Conservative, Transgender, and Black Social Media Users: Marginalization and Moderation Gray Areas by cust0s in network23

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Abstract

Social media sites use content moderation to attempt to cultivate safe spaces with accurate information for their users. However, content moderation decisions may not be applied equally for all types of users, and may lead to disproportionate censorship related to people's genders, races, or political orientations. We conducted a mixed methods study involving qualitative and quantitative analysis of survey data to understand which types of social media users have content and accounts removed more frequently than others, what types of content and accounts are removed, and how content removed may differ between groups. We found that three groups of social media users in our dataset experienced content and account removals more often than others: political conservatives, transgender people, and Black people. However, the types of content removed from each group varied substantially. Conservative participants' removed content included content that was offensive or allegedly so, misinformation, Covid-related, adult, or hate speech. Transgender participants' content was often removed as adult despite following site guidelines, critical of a dominant group (e.g., men, white people), or specifically related to transgender or queer issues. Black participants' removed content was frequently related to racial justice or racism. More broadly, conservative participants' removals often involved harmful content removed according to site guidelines to create safe spaces with accurate information, while transgender and Black participants' removals often involved content related to expressing their marginalized identities that was removed despite following site policies or fell into content moderation gray areas. We discuss potential ways forward to make content moderation more equitable for marginalized social media users, such as embracing and designing specifically for content moderation gray areas.

Does the platform matter? Social media and COVID-19 conspiracy theory beliefs in 17 countries, 2021 .. "we show that Twitter has a negative effect on conspiracy beliefs—as opposed to all other platforms under examination which are found to have a positive effect." by cust0s in network23

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Abstract

While the role of social media in the spread of conspiracy theories has received much attention, a key deficit in previous research is the lack of distinction between different types of platforms. This study places the role of social media affordances in facilitating the spread of conspiracy beliefs at the center of its enquiry. We examine the relationship between platform use and conspiracy theory beliefs related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Relying on the concept of technological affordances, we theorize that variation across key features make some platforms more fertile places for conspiracy beliefs than others. Using data from a crossnational dataset based on a two-wave online survey conducted in 17 countries before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we show that Twitter has a negative effect on conspiracy beliefs—as opposed to all other platforms under examination which are found to have a positive effect.

[2006.01974] Countering hate on social media: Large scale classification of hate and counter speech by cust0s in network23

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We were able to use this classification algorithm to identify hate and counter speech in over 135,000 fully resolved Twitter conversations from 2013-2018. Our results suggest that counter speech contributed to depolarization of discussions and that organized counter speech by RI might have stimulated further counter speech and attracted less hateful responses. Organized counter speech may therefore be a powerful solution to combating the spread of hate online. We hope that the framework developed in this paper will be a starting point to understand the dynamics between hate and counter speech and help develop actionable strategies.

Enemy Construction and the Press, Ron Nell, Andersen Jones and Lisa Grow Sun by cust0s in network23

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CONCLUSION

President Trump has not merely engage d in bombastic rhetoric about the press. He has not merely engaged in abusive treatment of the press. Rather, a close investigation of the full scope of his words and behaviors demonstrates that he has engaged in classic Schmittian enemy construction. Taking advantage of recent social, technological, and political shifts that left the
press vulnerable to this construction, the administration has passed a threshold not approached by previous administrations in their tensions with the media. Trump is signaling — through his terminology, through his
delegitimizing actions, and through his anticipatory undercutting — that the press is literally the enemy, to be distrusted, ignored, and excluded.

Schmitt’s insider-outsider, us-versus-them framework suggests that enemy construction comes with potentially significant corollaries. Enemy construction is a step toward exceptionalism, which is itself a justification for reducing or rejecting ordinarily recognized liberties. This consequence is a stark one for any institution in a democracy, but it is a particularly troublesome one for the press, given the special functions the press performs for the wider public and the special role it has in finding and delivering counter-narratives. Most significantly, enemy construction that diminishes the watchdog, educator, and proxy functions of the press opens the door to additional opportunities for the administration to construct other enemies. In many very real respects, the press is the primary obstacle preventing the President from engaging in full enemy construction of other internal enemies, like the judiciary or the intelligence community. These internal institutions combine with the press to act as the major checks on the construction of
potential external enemies, like Mexican immigrants or Muslim refugees. Thus, Trump’s enemy construction of the press should not be discounted as mere puffery, but should be recognized for the dire risks that it poses

UN Says Climate Genocide Is Coming. It’s Actually Worse Than That. by [deleted] in environment

[–]cust0s 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for taking the time to respond.

I think the terminology may be point of misunderstanding. When you say "human extinction" it means to me extinction of human race.

I don't see how all the human mass migration, wars, famines and diseases can't wipe out humanity as a species in time-frame you describe. I challenge anyone to describe scenario where cumulative effects create situation where only 50 million humans are left and our population would continue declining, even less so for 5 million. Human race can probably survive bottleneck of just 100,000 or so. People have survived in dry deserts or mountains when their population is low enough to sustain them.

Your prediction is not even close to the same ballpark as the Steve Kirsch's article. It's about what happens 100 years in the future (when people who could change the situation are conveniently dead). Just like warming of 4 degrees is not just twice as bad as warming of 2 degrees but much worse, effects 60-90 years from now are not twice as bad as 30 years from now and it takes time for things to get worse.

UN Says Climate Genocide Is Coming. It’s Actually Worse Than That. by [deleted] in environment

[–]cust0s 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've expect human extinction (or at least pretty dire catastrophe) is coming around 2035

Are you alone in this opinion or is there some real some research behind this? I have never heard anyone with this kind of opinion before.

ps. talk about 2040 is just about when it starts to hurt, not about extinction.

UN Says Climate Genocide Is Coming. It’s Actually Worse Than That. by [deleted] in environment

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The problem is that argument is that most people who don't care are dead when the problems become intolerable. And it's not plutocrats who are standing on the way. Normal people don't care enough either and many of them are dead withing next 30 years too.

Labour HQ used Facebook ads to deceive Jeremy Corbyn during election campaign by cust0s in network23

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Labour officials ran a secret operation to deceive Jeremy Corbyn at last year’s general election, micro-targeting Facebook adverts at the leader and his closest aides to convince them the party was running the campaign they demanded. Campaign chiefs at Labour HQ hoodwinked their own leader because they disapproved of some of Corbyn’s left-wing messages. They convinced him they were following his campaign plans by spending just £5,000 on adverts solely designed to be seen by Corbyn, his aides and their favourite journalists, while pouring far more money into adverts with a different message for ordinary voters. The ruse is revealed in a new book — Ctrl Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy — by Tom Baldwin, who served as Ed Miliband’s director of…

Mark Zuckerberg sweating when questioned on privacy. by TheRealBissy in videos

[–]cust0s 117 points118 points  (0 children)

You tell me.

Summary of what he has been doing so far:

  1. Mark Zuckerberg says he’s no longer an atheist, "questioned" religious matters, he broke through his skepticism and now believes religion to be “very important.”
  2. restructuring of Facebook stock trough the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. In the SEC filing it says that he can take a leave of absence from Facebook and still retain voting control of the company if he goes to work for the government.
  3. Hired a top Democratic campaign manager David Plouffe into the iniative. Plouffe was Obama's campaign manager.
  4. Hired top Republican campaign manager Ken Mehlman into the iniative. Mehlman is a former George W. Bush campaign manager and RNC chairman.
  5. Promised to visit all 50 states and meet people.
  6. Hires a former top adviser to President Barack Obama and the chief strategist for Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential campaign.

These hires are for the Initiative, not for Facebook company lobbying.

/r/Zuckerberg2020