Facebook is Making Changes to Its Advertising System by Hiring over 1,000 People to Review Ads
Due to the congressional investigation that Facebook is currently under over Russia's involvement in the 2016 U.S. election, the social media giant is planning to hire over 1,000 people for their global ads review team to fight abuse and interference with elections.
Facebook handed over 3,000 ads to investigators that were bought by a Russian company.
Facebook’s disclosure to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees and the Senate Judiciary Committee will include information on the ads’ content and targeting as well as the accounts that paid approximately $100,000 for them to run between 2015 and 2017 in the U.S. It previously announced these ads were tied to 470 accounts and Pages “associated with a Russian entity known as the Internet Research Agency.”
Facebook believes that congressional investigators for the three committees are best placed to review the ads and make determinations on them based on their access to classified intelligence and information from all relevant companies and industries, beyond Facebook own internal investigation, according to a spokesperson. Facebook does not plan to release the ad data publicly.
Could We See Something Like This Happen to the Steem Platform in The Future?
Now with SMTs being part of the platform in the future, many of us see the platform to be a giant itself in the future. With SMTs and posts being sorted in their order of value, could a company purchase stake or have some kind of deal to have an influence on something like an election and affect the sort order of posts to push political agendas?
There is a built-in countering system of downvoting but at this level, would we be able to prevent something like this from happening? Perhaps I may be way off or it would self-correct...
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I hope that they don't hire me because i cannot leave steemit.
Yes please don't leave to Facebook...
Nice post .
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They need to keep all that nonsense over there at Facecrook, and leave Steemit alone. We're doing just fine, thank you!
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There is a fine line between censoring abuse and abusive censorship. Anything less than truly free speech is subject to bias in the censorship process. Nevertheless, there are certain behaviors that cannot be tolerated. One example that I think most everybody would agree with is encouraging someone to commit suicide. Media, for their own good, just need to be as fair and unbiased as possible. Otherwise, they risk narrowing their user base to just those whose personal bias matches the bias of the medium.