It is a very good article about Facebook (or Meta) indeed, and it reminded me of the initiative from the Center for Internet and Society of India, that submitted a policy consultation to the Facebook Oversight Board regarding their "X-Check" system, or whitelisted accounts on the platform. I do not know if the "superusers" analyzed in the The Atlantich article are in the X-Check system, but its findings may help better understand the function of the "X-Check" for the company To whom it may interest, here's the link to the submission presented to the Oversight Board: https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/submission-to-the-facebook-ov... Em qui., 10 de fev. de 2022 às 15:19, Sarah Ann Oates <soates@umd.edu> escreveu:
Wow, if you read or teach one article about FB, this should be it I think. Sarah Sarah Oates Pronoun: she/her
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On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 1:15 PM Colin Delany <cpd@epolitics.com> wrote:
Makes perfect sense, based on what we know about the Fb algorithm. The researchers have studied the patterns/effects in detail, and you might be interested in both the findings and the methodology.
"And because Facebook’s algorithm rewards engagement, these superusers have enormous influence over which posts are seen first in other users’ feeds, and which are never seen at all. Even more shocking is just how nasty most of these hyper-influential users are. The most abusive people on Facebook, it turns out, are given the most power to shape what Facebook is."
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/02/facebook-hate-speech-...
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