{"id":3287,"date":"2021-10-17T09:41:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T07:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/17\/facebooks-policing-of-vitriol-is-even-more-lackluster-outside-the-us-critics-say\/"},"modified":"2021-10-17T09:41:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T07:41:55","slug":"facebooks-policing-of-vitriol-is-even-more-lackluster-outside-the-us-critics-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/17\/facebooks-policing-of-vitriol-is-even-more-lackluster-outside-the-us-critics-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s policing of vitriol is even more lackluster outside the US, critics say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital activists around the world are urging Facebook to take seriously how its algorithm incites misinformation and ethnic violence<\/p>\n<p>On a cloudy evening in Nairobi, Berhan Taye is scrolling through a spreadsheet in which she has helped document more than 140 Facebook posts from Ethiopia that contain hate speech. There are videos of child abuse, texts of hate speech against different ethnic groups, and hours-long live streams inciting hatred. These posts breach Facebook community guidelines in any context. Yet for Taye and her colleagues, this is what Facebook\u2019s news feed has looked like for years in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>Because there aren\u2019t enough content moderators focused on Ethiopia, it has been up to Taye, an independent researcher looking at technology\u2019s impact on civil society, and a team of grassroots volunteers to collect and then report misinformation and hate speech to Facebook.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/17\/facebook-policing-vitriol-outside-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cd646f6009cec80924ad993429d0dbcd0d849bd5\/0_150_4500_2700\/master\/4500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6be3f38e0f8f318f456eb8671dc588be\" title=\"Facebook\u2019s policing of vitriol is even more lackluster outside the US, critics say\" \/>Digital activists around the world are urging Facebook to take seriously how its algorithm incites misinformation and ethnic violence<br \/>\nOn a cloudy evening in Nairobi, Berhan Taye is scrolling through a spreadsheet in which she has helped document more than 140 Facebook posts from Ethiopia that contain hate speech. There are videos of child abuse, texts of hate speech against different ethnic groups, and hours-long live streams inciting hatred. These posts breach Facebook community guidelines in any context. Yet for Taye and her colleagues, this is what Facebook\u2019s news feed has looked like for years in Ethiopia.<br \/>\nBecause there aren\u2019t enough content moderators focused on Ethiopia, it has been up to Taye, an independent researcher looking at technology\u2019s impact on civil society, and a team of grassroots volunteers to collect and then report misinformation and hate speech to Facebook. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital activists around the world are urging Facebook to take seriously how its algorithm incites misinformation and ethnic violence On a cloudy evening in Nairobi, Berhan Taye is scrolling through a spreadsheet in which she has helped document more than 140 Facebook posts from Ethiopia that contain hate speech. There are videos of child abuse, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/17\/facebooks-policing-of-vitriol-is-even-more-lackluster-outside-the-us-critics-say\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook\u2019s policing of vitriol is even more lackluster outside the US, critics say<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}