Twitter Seeks More Verified Coronavirus Experts, Automates Machine Learning-Enhanced Content Screening (gizmodo.com) 19
Twitter announced it's working with global public health authorities to identify experts on the new coronavirus, and its prioritizing those accounts for official verification, reports Gizmodo:
It's the latest step in Twitter's larger initiative to crack down on the kinds of viral hoaxes and potentially dangerous misinformation that have circulated on several social media platforms as the novel coronavirus outbreak's intensified. Earlier this week, the company announced that it had broadened its definition of harmful content to cover anything "that goes directly against guidance from authoritative sources of global and local public health information."
Twitter also promised they'd be "Increasing our use of machine learning and automation to take a wide range of actions on potentially abusive and manipulative content..." [T]his may result in us making mistakes. As a result, we will not permanently suspend any accounts based solely on our automated enforcement systems. Instead, we will continue to look for opportunities to build in human review checks where they will be most impactful. We appreciate your patience as we work to get it right -- this is a necessary step to scale our work to protect the conversation on Twitter.
"[W]e want to be open about the challenges we are facing and the contingency measures we're putting in place to serve the public conversation at this critical time."
Twitter also promised they'd be "Increasing our use of machine learning and automation to take a wide range of actions on potentially abusive and manipulative content..." [T]his may result in us making mistakes. As a result, we will not permanently suspend any accounts based solely on our automated enforcement systems. Instead, we will continue to look for opportunities to build in human review checks where they will be most impactful. We appreciate your patience as we work to get it right -- this is a necessary step to scale our work to protect the conversation on Twitter.
"[W]e want to be open about the challenges we are facing and the contingency measures we're putting in place to serve the public conversation at this critical time."
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Got a bidet. (Score:2)
And sanity.
Have fun in your wasteland, troglodytes. :P
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I'll sell you one unopened R100 for $2500. US customers only, I don't think Europeans are allowed to pay premium prices.
Forced Consensus (Score:3, Informative)
They will only be verifying "experts" who push the mass hysteria, state-control, martial law agenda.
This virus was man-made and is being used by world governments to subjugate free people. That's all there is to it.
Self-contradicting. (Score:3)
How was it man made, if it affects everyone? Reminds me of how Rusia would have said something, if the moon landing had been fake.
Although power-hungry totalitarians, and corporate/media psychopaths everywhere ARE milking the living fuck out of of this not very unusual infection season.
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I'm not saying that it was man made, but I like to speculate and play what-if as much as the next guy, so here we go.
China has a population problem. Specifically, their population is aging, and skewed male. Historically what you do with excess males is invade someone. But war is getting to be less and less profitable, and more and more dangerous over time. There are no convenient neighbors for China to invade for profit.
Covid-19 seems to be most dangerous to elderly people, and possibly more dangerous to ma
You require an expert to verify an expert. (Score:2)
Haven't thought this through, have you, Twitter? Character limit ran out? Or just the usual [youtu.be]>
And when the world needs them... (Score:2)
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Re: Forgot #5 (Score:1)
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5. Just assume that if it comes out of China, it's false until 5 non-allies of China verify it from their own experience.
~MikeRT
What you and I both know is the news aggregators with the greatest longevity to protect free speech with anonymous posts (here) and pseudonymous accounts (here and Fark) were greatly compromised by agenda using alternative accounts.
If you've ever done so, please launch #3 thru #5, and yourself, into the sun. And if you haven't, I'm posting to say I enjoyed the first half ot this thread for its sarcastic dismissal and your #1 and #2 were all that is needed to be said about platforms incentivizing self-prom
More censorship (Score:1)