The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
What I learned from three months of Content Moderation for Facebook in Berlin
At the end of the ramp-up process, a moderator should handle approximately 1300 reports every day which let him/her in average only a few seconds to reach a decision for each report. The intellectually challenging task tends to become an automated action almost a reaction.
Averaging Information Is Not Cutting It Anymore
“Rescuing Collective Wisdom When The Average Group Opinion Is Wrong” is an article that pokes fun at the fanaticism running rampant in the news. Beyond the fanaticism in the news, there is a real concern with averaging when it comes to data science and other fields that heavily rely on data.
The article breaks down the different ways averaging is used and the different theorems that are developed from it. The introduction is a bit wordy but it sets the tone:
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Averaging Data is Stupid”
Tip of the Hat to Contributing Editor Berto Jongman.
Continue reading “Sibel Edmunds: CIA-Gulen False Flag in China to be Blamed on Uyghurs?”
The DarkCyber program for January 16, 2018, reports on a possible Dark Web kidnapping, the Experian Dark Web scanning service, the shift to Monero and Zcash for some Dark Web merchants, and a facet of net neutrality which may provide some streamlined methods for law enforcement and intelligence professionals.
Global Networks Are Necessary To Overcome Abusive Governments And Oligarchy
We need to think about building a world defined by networks governed by rules, but with no rulers.
Continue reading “ZeroHedge: Global Networks Necessary to Overcome Abusive Elites”
Facebook Couldn't Handle News. Maybe It Never Wanted To.
While Facebook is notorious for its endless piddling product tweaks, this one seems a substantive shift in strategic vision. It’s an unprecedented acknowledgment that Facebook’s core feature — News Feed — has not worked out at all the way it was intended. It was abused by peddlers of misinformation. It was used by foreign governments to attempt to interfere in elections. It made people feel bad.
Google: Even More Humans Needed
I read “Google Plans to Vet YouTube Premium Video Content.” The main point of the write up strikes me as:
Google told partners that it plans to use both human moderators — the company recently announced it will have 10,000 employees focused on the task — as well as artificial intelligence software to flag videos deemed inappropriate for ads.
Yep, humans. Just like the old fashioned, endangered newspaper, magazine, and commercial database companies did. I find this amusing because the shift at Google is similar to the approach that Facebook seems to be implementing. Read full post.
