When a machine moderates content, it evaluates text and images as data using an algorithm that has been trained on existing data sets. The process for selecting training data has come under fire as it’s been shown to have racial, gender and other biases.
It’s been shown over and over again for the last two decades that you can’t build a reliable archive on platforms outside of your control. Stuff like Instagram can be useful for trying to draw traffic to your own platform - but you always should treat those platforms as throwaway content.
This just reminded me that I need to delete my instagram account.
EDIT: all done.
An important point, buried deeply in the article :
She said she has observed differential treatment across the social media platform, depending on the race of the subject in the image in question or who posted it.
“We’ve seen this time and again, Meta taking down content by and about people of color,” she said. “While similar content by and about white people remains up.”
Another strong argument for the fediverse.
The Instagram account is back now. I’m still banning Meta though.
Unfortunately those are not platforms meant for archiving, it’s in their own TOS they can take down any content or entire accounts at their own will and for undisclosed reasons. Also those platforms are subject to shitty practices like report abusing, yet another reason to put your content in danger.
Also unfortunately they are very attractive because of the influence a person can build with large network of followers in those platforms and how they can leverage that.
I don’t see a plausible solution or alternative. Instagram, Facebook, are the platform of the masses and where your content has the highest exposure. People today aren’t browsing “the web” like we used to back then. Instagram/Facebook are the internet.
Everything I don’t like is racism
Please explain why their photos were taken down but photos of the Hell’s Angels were allowed to stay up.
