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Mark Zuckerberg Says Facebook Won't Remove Holocaust Denial Content

Mark Zuckerberg got himself into hot water Wednesday after suggesting that Holocaust deniers are not “intentionally getting it wrong” while explaining why they won’t be policed on Facebook.  In a lengthy interview with Recode published Wednesday, Recode co-founder Kara Swisher pressed the Facebook CEO to explain how he can simultaneously say he is combating the […]

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State of the Art: Tech Companies Like Facebook and Twitter Are Drawing Lines. It’ll Be Messy.

State of the Art Tech Companies Like Facebook and Twitter Are Drawing Lines. It’ll Be Messy. ImageCreditDoug Chayka By Farhad Manjoo July 25, 2018 From its earliest days, Silicon Valley has been animated by near-absolutist understanding of free speech. Other than exceptions for fraud, pornography or specific threats, the prevailing view among many tech platforms […]

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Secretly filmed footage reveals the training Facebook moderators are put through

Firecrest/C4Facebook moderators are trained to evaluate graphically violent content. The training Facebook moderators are put through has been revealed in secretly filmed footage, recorded by a reporter for British broadcaster Channel 4. The training, carried out by Facebook’s content moderation contractor CPL Resources, reveals how reviewers should deal with material, including child abuse and racism. […]