Why am I getting gore on my racism app?
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If Lemmy/Pixelfed/Masto can’t capitalize on this we fucked up.
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This was already posted here, and the original post has a paywall bypass link
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Not even a cycle ago I wrote a long post about optional (pluggable, like you can choose different sources of weather in some applet or of exchange rates in some personal finances application ; except unlike these, you'd have to query such for every post your client application should display or consider banned) moderation authorities in a hypothetical social media system.
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Better question:
Why is Instagram hosting horrific violence, animal abuse, murders, dead bodies, and other gore videos AT ALL?
They aren't rotten.com, so why host it? If you don't host it, then you don't need to worry about the feeds screwing up.
Do they do porn videos too? There's the next potential problem...
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I posted this in the other link, from the article:
In an email, a Meta spokesperson told 404 Media “We have fixed an error that caused some users to see content in their Instagram Reels feed that should not have been recommended. We apologize for the mistake.” They said that the problem does not have anything to do with Meta’s recent announcement that it would loosen some content moderation rules.
To prove that this was actually happening, I sent Meta six links to graphic reels. These included two videos of people getting shot in the face, a video of a dead body with no context or obvious news value, a person getting lit on fire, the account called “PeopleDeadDaily,” and the tower of terror video. None of these videos have been deleted.
One of the many problems preventing people from actually holding Meta to account for any of this is that everyone’s feed is so incredibly personalized. Like I said, because we report on the darker corners of the internet, my Instagram feed is full of horrific things on a daily basis, which is probably not everyone’s experience.
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I keep fucking forgetting 404 media is a legit news source and I'm not actually looking at a parody news/onion style community.
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That explains a lot for my feed. I’ve been getting more fights, and a lot more republican propaganda than I had ever in the past. I usually just close the app and wait 15 minutes before trying again, which usually “resets” my feed.
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Oh there's plenty of porn in there. Not hard-core stuff, and done in a way to fool algorithmic detection, but it's there
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Oh they always have a reason, and it's extremely unethical
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What the hell is the tower of terror video?
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Any time a video is known by its title instead of a description, it's better not to seek it out.
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Named like one too
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Now I'm intrigued.
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For anyone not familiar (assuming you’re being serious here) the tower of terror is a ride based on a movie where you’re essentially in a simulated free-falling elevator. No seatbelts or safety inside the box but my understanding is that they are held to the same safety standards as other roller coasters. I legitimately can’t tell if this is about the ride or a real free falling elevator.
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Doing the lords work and I appreciate you!
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My son showed me this last night, its insane. Its like one video from his feed and then two videos of people getting mauled
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Perhaps to desensitize the common person to the impending brutal violence that will be sweeping the united states.
On a related note, if you are a member of a marginalized group in the united states, you are behind the curve if you do not own, and are not basically proficient with, some form of self defense. This includes some kind of martial art, but a visible deterent is prefered.
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It's described in the article, got to it from one of the other links on lemmy. It's the older tower of terror smaller carnival rides. The ones that are like 20-40 seats around a central pole and the seats alternate between going up and down the pole at as rapid a pace as that much weight can be cheaply moved.
The video in question is about someone falling off of it.
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I like this but realistically what was supposed to be blocked from the algorithm got shown and pushed instead, prob a simple error
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I see someone’s been reading their Frantz Fanon
