Discussion

• @grantstern Grant Stern on x

  Facebook has had this for years and used it to stop news posts going viral on @OccupyDemocrats. I have seen it in real-time. Nothing new. Well, except that they nought use it on disinformation for a CHANGE. https://twitter.com/...

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  Facebook announcing something long overdue, but as we've seen with past policies, it means nothing unless it's applied equally for all users. If there are people at the top that advocate for preferential treatment of some pages or users, there will always be a workaround. https:/…

• @3r1ng Erin Gallagher on x

  A virality circuit breaker sounds like a good idea. https://twitter.com/...

• @jason @jason on x

  They've always had this They just purposefully ignored it to get traffic https://twitter.com/...

• @wongmjane Jane Manchun Wong on x

  @CaseyNewton That's actually pretty good idea — prioritized content moderation

• @slpng_giants @slpng_giants on x

  2016: Give Alex Jones the ability to harass Sandy Hook parents at scale 2017: Cause a genocide in Myanmar. 2018: Live stream the murder of 52 Muslims 2019: Create a cult designated by the FBI as a domestic terror threat. 2020: Let's do a circuit breaker! Nailed it, @facebook! htt…

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on x

  If you're wondering why this column completely buries the lede (that Techmeme helpfully elevates here) it's because I got the information 15 minutes before my deadline 😆 https://twitter.com/...

• @navalang Navneet Alang on x

  It's almost like this obvious, much-discussed-by-critics-idea was delayed or ignored because Facebook has a financial and ideological investment in unchecked virality https://twitter.com/...

• @jpanzer John Panzer on x

  It makes no sense they were not already doing this. I implemented similar systems before 2010, because this is so blazingly obvious it's close to the first thing you do to prioritize manual review targeting. https://twitter.com/...

• @jason_kint Jason Kint on x

  Shocked this isn't already standard practice but certainly reads to be a positive step for those who believe better moderation is a step towards a better Facebook. Me, I still think it's a distraction...band-aid...from fixing a toxic business model. https://twitter.com/...

• @fbajak Frank Bajak on x

  Why didn't Facebook do this four years ago? It didn't know then that its algorithms were promoting extreme content? https://twitter.com/...

• @gadyepstein Gady Epstein on x

  Incredible. Figuring out in 2020 that you might want to check on viral phenomena on your platform. Of course there have never been financial incentives to put the brakes on, only moral ones https://twitter.com/...

• @donie Donie O'Sullivan on x

  It's just stunning that this is just becoming a thing. Always an obvious approach to people with common sense. https://twitter.com/...

• @emilybell Emily Bell on x

  Honestly the fact FB is not doing this already is astonishing . Also ‘virality circuit breaker’ lol. They are editing /curating the feed, with humans, *as they should* https://twitter.com/...

• @ericgarland Eric Garland on x

  FACEBOOK: “Now that we're about to be in a vast series of civil, criminal, and counterintelligence prosecutions, we'll now pilot a thing where maybe we detect hostile foreign intelligence. Possibly.” https://twitter.com/...

• @oliverdarcy Oliver Darcy on x

  This is such a no brainer! It's *insane* that Facebook is only just doing this now. https://twitter.com/...

• @asharangappa_ Asha Rangappa on x

  This is the kind of thing that my *undergraduates* have recommended in their policy papers in my Disinformation & Democracy class since about [checks watch] THREE YEARS AGO. Why has it taken Facebook — which supposedly has “experts” — this long to come up with it? 🙄 https://twitt…

• @tayhatmaker Taylor Hatmaker on x

  it's bonkers that Facebook doesn't have a system like this already in place https://twitter.com/...

• @evelyndouek Evelyn Douek on x

  Great news — friction baby! it's the next frontier now that we're wandering around outside the take-down/leave-up binary of content moderation https://twitter.com/...

• @sivavaid Siva Vaidhyanathan on x

  People who understand this stuff have been telling FB to do this for YEARS. But when engagement and growth drive everything, no one listens to the scholars. https://twitter.com/...

• @summerson Camazon dot com on x

  they should ban the Android subreddit then https://twitter.com/...

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  Still scratching my head on the Microsoft acquisition here. Other MSFT consumer services like Skype/XBox Live/Minecraft do not have the ability for hate speech to be broadcasted and observed by the media at scale. This is breaking the brand into jail. https://www.engadget.com/...