As if auto-moderation is an excuse? In past Meta/Facebook has heavily hired human moderators.

We're seriously not going to start abdicating responsibility to automated machines, are we?

jibalt 9 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

That's a done deal -- Facebook started letting their human moderators (and other contracted workers) go in 2023, and then switched to "free speech" automated moderation in Jan 2025.

One of the contributing factors was a $52 million settlement in 2020 for causing PTSD in those human moderators -- dealing with all that abusive shit was very emotionally taxing.

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landr0id an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Damned if you do. Damned if you don’t.

An account was suspended for 90 minutes. Why is the automatic assumption that it was malicious?

In fact, if Meta had protections against this I’m sure some people would be crying about “obvious political favoritism”.

Hopefully they can move the needle that makes the system in general harder to abuse. But wow, the outrage is insane.

	▲	xethos an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Why is the automatic assumption that it was malicious? Because the business model is malicious. Meta has, quite intentionally, wedged itself in-between large amounts of human interaction. They know some people are malicious. They know the machine will frequently make the wrong call, because the auto-moderator can neither reason, nor account for context. But hiring enough moderators to run moderation through the computer, provide a default "suggested" action, and having a human approve or deny, would be too expensive. It would demolish their profit, and may even pull Meta from black to red, financially. Their business model relies on making the wrong call, and having outrage bring it to the attention of actual Meta staff to correct it. Meta does not get to blame the computer they put in charge of moderation instead of hiring adequate staff; computers can never be held accountable, so accountability moves up the chain to the people that programmed the computer and left it in charge.
	▲	nfw2 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		they probably can reduce the error rate and triage false positives basically instantly with ai, but we all know how society feels about that

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nfw2 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

you abdicate responsibility to an automated system whenever you deposit a check into an atm (which you probably don't because you use the banking system in an even more automated way)

if the accusation is political cronyism then yes, whether it was automated or discretionary is obviously relevant

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afavour 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, no matter what happened Meta are responsible and should provide answers.

There’s still an important distinction to make though: if it was automated then the No Kings page was not deliberately targeted for political reasons.