quartz/content/notes/zuck.md

title	aliases	tags
zuck		cosc203 asgn3

a friend of yours had a reaction to something so you might be interested in it too.

try to mute angry reactions

algorithms appeal to human nature - amplify things you are interested in - people are interested in things that upset them - it this too impactful - should we make it so there is no algorithm - just let people share what they share and find what they find and just let stuff exist.

• started this way when there was not technoology to rank stuff
• when you dont rank stuff the system gets "gamed" in other ways
  • e.g., most recent at the top
  • makes people post a lot
  • miss obviously really important stuff
    • e.g., sibilings getting married etc
      • this would get lots of reactions so this would be ranked higher

could just limit number of posts

• rank based on quality of posts etc

ability to control the flow of information

• company run by human beings that have the ability to to decide what is shown and supressed.
• this concerns a lot of people

"empowering people to express themselves"

• facebook
  • not imprint their opion - empower people to share
  • bring world closer together
  • huge responsibility
  • choose what gets aplified - what gets supressed
  • help peopple discover what they want
  • value that people can believe different things - good to let them express that
  • knowledge of people utilising facebook for fake pages to promote political agendas
  • coordinated inauthentic behaviour
    • team of people to find and remove these
    • "arms race" 1:40:10
  • "defend integrity of the community" 1:40:30
  • sometimes they get it wrong
  • "do you want more false positive or more false negative" 1:42:01 which do you value more
  • "not black and white"
  • temporary waiting period white visibility is supressed white the story if fact checked.