Sources: as part of its layoffs, Meta cut a project that would have let third-party fact-checkers like Reuters add comments at the top of articles on Facebook
and the online chaos that's expected to ensue — just months away” https://www.cnbc.com/... John Oberlin / @omgno2trump : Beware of social media: they would rather have more $Billions than an honest safe platform. They're open for bad actors to make them into disinformation & propaganda machines. Tech layoffs ravage teams that fight misinformation/hate speech https://www.cnbc.com/... Emma Kinery / @emmakinery : Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Twitter have all drastically reduced the size of their teams focused on internet trust and safety as well as ethics as the companies focus on cost cuts https://www.cnbc.com/... Brian Stelter / @brianstelter : Important story by @haydenfield and @JonathanVanian: “Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Twitter have all drastically reduced the size of their teams focused on internet trust and safety as well as ethics as the companies focus on cost cuts.” https://www.cnbc.com/... Matt Rosoff / @mattrosoff : Great reporting here from @JonathanVanian and @haydenfield - Meta layoffs scrapped the rollout of a fact-checking feature that was all ready to go. Layoffs have hit trust & safety teams hard. https://www.cnbc.com/... Hayden Field / @haydenfield : NEW: For months, I've wanted to write a broad look at how Big Tech is slashing AI ethics & trust/safety jobs meant to limit tech harms. @JonathanVanian & I teamed up on what those cuts look like at Meta, Twitch, Twitter & more, hearing from those affected.https://www.cnbc.com/ ... See also Mediagazer
High quality content is an investment. Allowing crap may reduce short-term costs but annoys customers long-term, causing problems with retention, usage, and growth: “In the long run, it's really hard to win back consumer trust.” https://twitter.com/...
So let me gets this straight, the only content that Facebook is actively threatening to block isn't harmful content, it's the most trust information sources in our country. https://twitter.com/...
2022 was likely the high water mark for trust and safety, at least for the foreseeable future. I reckon we've entered a new phase- the No Shame phase- with catalyzing events like 2016 and Cambridge Analytica fading, and a political backlash underway. https://twitter.com/...
@haydenfield @JonathanVanian Exactly why the fiction that tech companies can regulate themselves is so patently absurd. Like most large corporations, tech companies regulate their stock price and everything else is dispensable. [image]
Critically important, these changes come at the precise time Facebook is threatening Parliament it will block all sharing of all of the world's trusted news sources in Canada in order to protect its profit margins. High risk moves. @Chris_Bittle @AHousefather @lisahepfner
“The slashing of teams tasked with trust & safety and AI ethics is a sign of how far [Big Tech is] willing to go to meet Wall Street demands...even with the 2024 US election season — and the online chaos that's expected to ensue — just months away” https://www.cnbc.com/...
Beware of social media: they would rather have more $Billions than an honest safe platform. They're open for bad actors to make them into disinformation & propaganda machines. Tech layoffs ravage teams that fight misinformation/hate speech https://www.cnbc.com/...
Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Twitter have all drastically reduced the size of their teams focused on internet trust and safety as well as ethics as the companies focus on cost cuts https://www.cnbc.com/...
Important story by @haydenfield and @JonathanVanian: “Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Twitter have all drastically reduced the size of their teams focused on internet trust and safety as well as ethics as the companies focus on cost cuts.” https://www.cnbc.com/...
Great reporting here from @JonathanVanian and @haydenfield - Meta layoffs scrapped the rollout of a fact-checking feature that was all ready to go. Layoffs have hit trust & safety teams hard. https://www.cnbc.com/...
NEW: For months, I've wanted to write a broad look at how Big Tech is slashing AI ethics & trust/safety jobs meant to limit tech harms. @JonathanVanian & I teamed up on what those cuts look like at Meta, Twitch, Twitter & more, hearing from those affected.https://www.cnbc.com/ ..…