Sam Seder
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Whistleblower Says Facebook Lies About Progress Against Hate Speech, Misinformation
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October 5, 2021
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5:03Now PlayingFacebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen details on 60 Minutes how Facebook lied about the progress they have made against hate speech and misinformation. Haugen explains that the algorithm since 2018 is optimized by showing content to users based on what gets more engagement, and how most of the time, the content happens to be 'polarizing' and 'hateful' in nature. The Majority Report crew discuss how giant media companies like Facebook and Google should to be broken up.
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Sam Seder: Karen Howe works for MIT technology reviewing she embedded with Facebook for a while and she realized like there were like two or three I'm trying to remember specifics teams that work on ai right to create the algorithm and sort of somehow they got lost track of where she who she was talking to and she sort of found out there was another one. And like there was two or three teams that were sort of public-facing to make it look like they were trying to curb the possible dangers associated with an algorithm like that but there was another one that was sort of not public-facing that was like going full steam ahead and they trumped all the other ones there was a whistleblower former Facebook data scientist Francis Haugen spoke with Scott Pelley. Just play the audio of this:
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