Friday, July 27, 2018

CLOiSTERING, MIRRORING, OR SHADOW BANNING

Is what's happening on Twitter shadow banning?

No.  Maybe ... perhaps ... could be ... not sure. What difference does it make?  If your twitter post has been cloistered or mirrored it simply means your post is not reaching its potential within the "social media universe" ... duh!



THERE IS NOTHING
SOCIAL MEDIA 
CAN PROVIDE
THAT IT HAS'NT 
ALREADY TAKEN 
FROM YOU IN THE FIRST PLACE


You can still see posts from the Republicans named in the Vice News article, including Republican Party Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida.

The White House, McDaniel and Gaetz didn't respond to requests for comment.

Your Twitter account may not autopopulate in searches, but that doesn't mean you've been shadow banned. 


Kevin Lee, a trust and safety architect at Sift Science, an online fraud and abuse detection company, said Thursday's misunderstanding highlights how lawmakers need to do a better job at understanding technology.

"Our leaders need to identify how technology works to make informed decisions (or public-facing commentary), especially when their work can have such an impact on how such technologies are used and regulated," Lee said.
Twitter's moderators aren't actively taking measures against accounts and blocking them so that only these users can see their own tweets, the company says.

The search results bug involves an error with Twitter's algorithm, the social network's head of product, Kayvon Beykpour, said in a series of tweets Wednesday.

Twitter's behavior signals caused the mistakes with autosuggestions, Beykpour explained.

"Our usage of the behavior signals within search was causing this to happen & making search results seem inaccurate," he said in a tweet Wednesday. "We're making a change today that will improve this." 
Twitter's product manager for health, David Gasca, talked to CNET about these signals earlier in July. They could include how often an account is muted, blocked, reported, retweeted, liked and replied to. Twitter's algorithm takes interactions into consideration, and its artificial intelligence classifies them as either positive or negative experiences.

WELL THERE'S THE PROBLEM .. AI INHERITANCE (DNA) 
OR PERHAPS AI'S INSTINCTS IS FLAWED!


As part of Twitter's push to create healthy conversations, its AI will favor accounts that have had more positive experiences. Well how does the AI determine feeling associated with "positive experiences" ...?