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Tue Apr 27 14:56:20 +0000 2021

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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

(Kinda wish Coons had pushed further with this line of questioning. What would it cost to address the false positives? Why are those costs unacceptable for Facebook to bear? Etc.) — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 27, 2021

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Sen. Coons asks why Facebook doesn't just make its temporary measures surrounding sensitive events (like the Chauvin verdict) a permanent fixture. Bickert implies that simply ratcheting up the algorithmic moderation tends to result in false positives. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 27, 2021

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Sen. Sasse highlights the issue where corrections to "outrageous" but misinformed tweets get a fraction of the amplification of the "original, false thing." "People are really good at short-term rage and the product capitalizes on that, doesn't it?" he asks Twitter. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 27, 2021

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