Facebook Whitelists Reveal Need For Real Viewpoint Diversity In Tech
Well, what do you know? Facebook has been caught lying again, and again so that it could apply its vaunted safety and protection rules in biased ways.
The details follow the now-familiar pattern and further underscore the central truth: There are only two ways for Facebook and other social-media companies to avoid rampant and crippling discrimination. Either they need to get out of “content moderation” entirely, or they must ensure that their moderators think like America as well as looking like it. There is no third way.
