Some fraction of the harm they do is by carelessness rather than malice. That some mindless algorithm intended to find and exploit for advertising purposes the posts that got the most engagement disproportionately selected ones featuring images of cute teenagers does not seem unlikely.
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snooggums@piefed.world 3 weeks agoThey have thousands of employees who discuss and make decisions before anything changes. Everything Meta does is intentional.
kbal@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
ranandtoldthat@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
They’ve intentionally maliciously set up systems where “carelessness” leads to these malicious outcomes.
It’s not fail safe, nor fail secure. It’s fail evil.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
I don’t think we can apply Hanlon to anything Meta does.
snooggums@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
They have been doing it long enough to know that happens.
verdare@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I’m going to assume this is Meta’s usual level of negligent greed, and there’s a decent chance that no human was involved. YouTube actually did something very similar.