So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX

Dont ministry of truth his stories with actual facts and reality.

But it’s Dinesh, the powerhouse behind 2,000 Mules.

No need for this, I said flagged, not removed.

That's my point. Moderation sucks ass because it's being delegated to low level employees who either can't be bothered or don't have the capacity to do it properly. Same kind employees who would be tasked with fact checking.

I used to work for eBay. They have loads of rules for what can't be on the site. And sometimes they get it wrong. I've seen times when the rules were misapplied. For example it's against the rules to use a celebrities name to sell something. You can't sell a pair of jeans and show brad pitt wearing a similar pair. This meant that I once saw a celebrity item removed incorrectly. It was the actual clothing that the celebrity wore and was being sold in a charity auction and someone removed it. It was reinstated.

The way items are reviewed now is by machine learning. This can remove hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of items in a month. Those items are generally breaking policy but some may also be illegal. Of the items that are removed, a random selection are sent to a human team who review to make sure that the program is correctly removing them. That same team would also deal with appeals. Because of this, hundreds of thousands of items, many of which are dangerous and illegal, are removed.

I know facebook do something similar but they also have teams dedicated to suicide, terrorism, child abuse etc.

I'd imagine that youtube videos are the same. About 3.7 million videos are uploaded every day. It's over 200k hours of video. It's impossible to have people review them all. I'd imagine that even just reviewing reports, it would me impossible to eyeball all the videos. I know that depending on your size, you get different levels of moderation. The largest accounts have account managers and reports are sent to them first for review. Smaller, but still larger accounts, would have managers who review the appeals and deal directly with the account holder.

But smaller level accounts would not have that and would have material removed by a system, not a person. And a person would look at the appeal.

And there's some fantastic moderation tools being developed to find fake news. Once a story/post/tweet is flagged as fake, the system can locate similar stories and flag them. They can be removed, reviewed or just have warning attached along with a link to a factual story.

The thing is that twitter got rid of most of their moderation teams. So there's next to no moderation on the platform. Whereas people could report posts that are harassing, or hateful or just misleading, that's not possible any more. There's no-one to look at them. And as imperfect as these moderation policies are across all platforms, at least they're there. I can tell you that although you might see material on them that is bad, they're still removing millions that are far worse. Twitter doesn't care anymore.

So unless a system is absolutely perfect with no possibility of faults whatsoever we should remove it?

No, what I was saying and what started this whole debate was that we should not let these people decide what is misinformation and what isn't, because they won't be able to do so. I was asked for proof, there you have it, they can't even get cat videos right. They can and will make arbitrary decisions, they will let their own bias guide them, because they don't know any better.

X twitter is descending into the shïtter

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-05/the-moral-case-for-no-longer-engaging-with-elon-musk-s-x

Except your argument for what actually happened to those videos and channels effectively boils down to since the system isn't perfect they should scrap the whole system. The enemy of good is perfection.

I'm sure the resident defender will justify paying people for getting lots of views on violent attacks.

I would strongly suspect engagement on the platform has fallen off a cliff.

Twitter has also not been paying users all the time for viral tweets, it's a recent thing. Sharing violent videos of crimes would have a user banned fairly lively previously, in this case they're actively making money off of the tweets.