{"id":11618,"date":"2021-05-20T16:31:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T16:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=11618"},"modified":"2021-05-20T16:47:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T16:47:34","slug":"facebooks-arbitrarily-censors-md-phd-calling-her-factual-post-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2021\/05\/20\/facebooks-arbitrarily-censors-md-phd-calling-her-factual-post-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook arbitrarily censors MD, PhD, calling her factual post &#8220;spam&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media has degenerated from distribution of false information (which still occurs in abundance), to censoring speech that billionaires do not like, to Artificial Stupidity-based systems that incorrectly classify posts.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to Zuckerberg&#8217;s claims that AI will solve everything &#8211; this is not true now and will doubtfully ever be true.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, citing a source causes Facebook to mis-classify your post as spam! The incentive then is to not cite sources! Which then lowers the quality of discourse on social media!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I enjoy social media for the exchange of knowledge and the acquaintances I have made. It was disappointing to me that Facebook censored my response (right) to the question from a friend (left), re the number of pediatric deaths and case rates in April using CDC and AAP data. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zTrJwJtywT\">pic.twitter.com\/zTrJwJtywT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tracy H\u00f8eg, MD, PhD (@TracyBethHoeg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TracyBethHoeg\/status\/1395380389858865155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>:<br \/>\nTwitter has an AI-based tool to automatically crop photos. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/twitter-photo-crop-algorithm-favors-white-faces-women\/\">Turns out it is biased to favor white women and biased against those with dark skin pigmentation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is one of many examples illustrating the bias inherit in bad AI-based systems. If they do this for photos, they do this for text too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An MD, PhD (epidemiology) finds her factual Facebook post mis-classified by Facebook&#8217;s auto-filters\/auto-censors and thereby censored from view. She had linked to the original source of the information. Therefore, the message from FB is &#8211; do not cite your sources! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}