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Month: March 2019

Facebook’s false positive censorship?

Facebook’s false positive censorship?

This image was censored by Facebook. Why? No one knows. But I suspect it was due to an image to text conversion error, or to AI language analysis that misinterpreted the meaning of the text. AI has been promised as the savior of social media but in reality, it continues to have numerous problems.

Twitter admits it is shadow banning tweets

Twitter admits it is shadow banning tweets

Shadow banning is common on social media, including newspaper comments. Rather than outright ban a comment, the media publisher hides the comment from everyone except the person who wrote it. In this way, the comment author is unaware that they have been censored.