Interesting Links for 28-07-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Meta Just Proved People Don't Enjoy Chronological Feeds

(tags:facebook psychology )

2. Elon Musk's reinstates right-wing influencer after he posts child exploitation photos

(tags:Child_abuse Twitter ElonMusk wtf OhForFucksSake )

3. Google what our chatbot tells you... says Google

(tags:Google ai )

Comments

[calimac]

1) Who are these "people"? I enjoy DW (and LJ before it) because it has a chronological feed, and I was appalled when I learned that this is not FB's default. B. is on FB, and uses an add-on that forces a chronological feed. Without one, she'd been missing posts by friends that she'd most have wanted to see.
The secret is, limit your feed to people you actually want to read. The guy who posts photos of every meal he eats - out. The one who's friendly enough in person but turns out to be a right-wing ranter online - out.

[movingfinger]

The Facebook algorithm experiment was, I assume, conducted on Facebook users who had long been trained to use and expect the algorithm to do their prioritizing for them. Hardly a clean test group.

[mountainkiss]

Agree with everyone here re chronological feeds and whom to follow.

[hairyears]

A commentator on Reddit r/Law has offered the following advice:

Twitter Ban

I do not regard Reddit as a reliable source and this should not be considered "Legal Advice" - consult a qualified and properly-registered practioner for that! - but I regard this as something a webside owner (and anyone posting links) needs to know.

[anna_wing]

From the link, the child photos were in the context of a discussion of a conviction of a Westerner in the Philippines. So on the assumption that the poster or the discussion was not actually supporting the rape of children (I do not follow Twitter), surely it would have been sufficient to inform the poster that he was in breach of site rules and remove the photo itself, but not tremove the discussion or ban the poster.