Twitter Says It's Better at Spotting Abusive Tweets Than Users (engadget.com) 46
Twitter says it has achieved a major milestone in its attempts to improve the "health" of its platform. From a report: According to the company's most recent earnings report, 50 percent of abusive tweets removed this past quarter were pulled before a user even flagged the content. That's up from 38 percent in Q1. Twitter adds that it achieved the milestone on the back of improvements it made to its machine learning-based moderation algorithms, which in turn forward more tweets to the company's employees to scrutinize.
Re:its easy to find bot and troll posting (Score:4, Insightful)
To think that not even 5 years ago, I thought things were still normal and we had progressed to a fairly good point in our society. But nope, now I have to deal with absolute fools that think anyone that's not inline with their naive beliefs, is a fictional bad guy.
I'm old enough to remember when fundamental Christians would frequent public parking lots to spread their ideology. They'd ask me questions pertaining to their belief, then when I'd decline or not answer how they wanted, they'd generally just move on, but in some rare cases the crazy ones would tell me I was going to Hell...
But now days we have to deal with FOOLS like this guy, that think TV-villains are everywhere.
Can I please have the crazy Christians back? They were substantially more rational. The worst I'd have to deal with, was that I'm going to an imaginary place. But with this new crop of massive ideologues -- of which tend to be incredibly racist -- they're psycho enough to want to destroy a persons life over a disagreement.
Seek help you fool! The world is not a cartoon.
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No, yelling 'Fire' in a theater is not illegal. In fact, under some circumstances, it may be illegal to NOT yell 'Fire'!
Please, do not spread falsehoods like this. The ignorant may believe you, and end up in some anti-free speech echo chamber.
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Re: its easy to find bot and troll posting (Score:1)
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Had it not been for the bullet in my breast pocket, the bible would have gone straight through my heart.
[Disclosure: plagiarised. I am not smart enough to be this funny. ]
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I'm sorry Hillary, but I'm not sure Tulsi Gabbard is going to quit over that accusation.
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We're just a couple of weeks away from HRC officially announcing she's running in the 2020 election.
Re: Democrats are always whiny anyway (Score:1)
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The DNC, headed by a series of got-caught stooges, diverted money from "downballot" elections into Hillary's campaign, leading to the biggest across-the-board loss the Democrats have ever seen. The press went on-and-on about Trump winning, brushing aside the complete smashing they also got across the board in State and Local elections.
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so I say let's delete the vast army of trolls
Nope, just stop right there. Just delete Twitter, that is all that is needed.
Naturally this depends on how you define "abusive" (Score:5, Insightful)
In Twitter's case calls for violence, racism, sexism, doxxing, and antisemitism are all perfectly fine as long as it's their bluechecks doing it. The milestone here is that they've finally gotten their algorithm tweaked so that it censors people based on their political alignment rather than the content of their tweets.
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In Twitter's case calls for violence, racism, sexism, doxxing, and antisemitism are all perfectly fine as long as it's their bluechecks doing it. The milestone here is that they've finally gotten their algorithm tweaked so that it censors people based on their political alignment rather than the content of their tweets.
It would really help your case if you could post a few links to tweets you've reported.
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It would really help your case if you could post a few links to tweets you've reported
I second this. The level of talk on this very topic would indicate that there has to be mountains of evidence, like an overwhelming amount of evidence. However, every time it is brought up that evidence is sorely lacking. I am not one to say it isn't happening but I'm definitely on the skeptical fence here for the dry well of evidence that's been offered thus far.
I can totally believe it as algorithms follow popular trends and if the vast amount of users on Twitter are left leaning, then the algorithm is
doesn't account for false positives (Score:5, Insightful)
Not that I would mind.
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In the meantime, my email provider is filtering 95% of all spam without needing my intervention.
Congratulations Twitter on achieving that 50%
Milestones (Score:2)
What is the quota for Q3?
Everybody hurts (Score:1)
I'm amazed (Score:3)
I'm truly amazed people still use Twitter. I remember when it started thinking "140 characters? Why bother" and have never had an account on it. Now it's 140 characters + censorship left and right. What's the point of this thing?
It seems self feeding at this point. I never hear anyone talk about what's on Twitter. I hear plenty about Facebook or Reddit and random other places but I have never once had anyone talk to me about Twitter trends. It seems like they only talk about Twitter on Twitter.
The last few years it's spread into news articles. Like Twitter has replaced journalism. I got to supposed news sites and half the fucking articles are links to Twitter posts from random dbag A and random dbag B. Like is this supposed to be news? Just seems like outrage culture to me.
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Wow, you need to keep up. Now it's 280 characters + censorship left and right. The extra 140 characters make up for all the beatings.
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People use it because most of them never get censored and it allows them to be much closer to interesting people than ever before. For example you can follow a bunch of politicians and get their unfiltered thoughts on events, where as on the news you might only get a soundbite from one of them. You can also respond and sometimes they respond back - I've had conversations with people in power, in Parliament and the Lords, and it's been productive.
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I'm truly amazed people still use Twitter. I remember when it started thinking "140 characters? Why bother" and have never had an account on it. Now it's 140 characters + censorship left and right. What's the point of this thing?
It seems self feeding at this point. I never hear anyone talk about what's on Twitter. I hear plenty about Facebook or Reddit and random other places but I have never once had anyone talk to me about Twitter trends. It seems like they only talk about Twitter on Twitter.
The last few years it's spread into news articles. Like Twitter has replaced journalism. I got to supposed news sites and half the fucking articles are links to Twitter posts from random dbag A and random dbag B. Like is this supposed to be news? Just seems like outrage culture to me.
Exactly. Who cares what people say on some stupid, deliberately crippled blog? That's all Twitter is. When did the world go insane?
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Says nothing about ... (Score:2)
... the interest of users in reporting abuse.
At times, they're probably right (Score:2, Insightful)
The snowflake demographic (generally with pronouns in their bio) tend to class almost anything as abuse, generally the words "no" or "I disagree" or "you're wrong"is classed as abuse, up to and including "you're wrong, here's the data" etc.
With us or against us, hell of a way to live.
Pulled before they were flagged. (Score:2)
How does that work?
If they are pulled, then how can they be seen to be flagged?
Do^H^HLie better, @Jack.
Investment in censorship (Score:2)
A "milestone" in more censorship for a nation with freedom of speech... freedom of the press.
Data, please? (Score:1)