[kictanet] Facebook's real risk

[Ronald Ojino]

@Brian , thanks for sharing, thats what i have been advocating for all
along...more open and intelligent metrics to alleviate this emerging issue.

On 24-Nov-2016 1:07 PM, "Brian Muhia via kictanet" <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> A more fundamental problem is metrics that Facebook uses, that are aligned
> with its business goals, which are simple, and aren't aligned with user
> needs, which are complex. A recent presentation discussed these issues
> here: "Is Anything Worth Maximising?" http://nxhx.org/maximizing/
>
> On Thu, 24 Nov 2016, 13:00 Sidney Ochieng via kictanet, <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> Facebook’s Content Blocking Sends Some Very Mixed Messages
>> https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602974/facebooks-
>> content-blocking-sends-some-very-mixed-messages/amp/
>>
>> They have the power, the question becomes do you want them to use it?
>>
>> On 24 November 2016 at 12:49, Sidney Ochieng <sidney.ochieng at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> China Uses US Concern Over Fake News To Push For More Control Of The
>> Internet | Techdirt https://www.techdirt.com/
>> articles/20161122/11501136116/china-uses-us-concern-over-
>> fake-news-to-push-more-control-internet.shtml
>> This is some what predictable but still worrying
>>
>> On 23 November 2016 at 17:50, Ronald Ojino via kictanet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>>
>> In my opinion, as long as you are a news delivery channel, you are
>> expected to uphold high standards.
>> Locally, we make choices on whether to read gutter press or news from
>> mainstream media houses.
>> However the delivery channel is expected to at least sift through the
>> content shared using intelligent algorithms
>> in order to guard against misinformation.
>> We can’t change what people’s perceptions but we as techies can come up
>> with more open and intelligent algorithms that
>> would at least minimize such issues.
>> R.O
>>
>> On Nov 23, 2016, at 3:48 PM, Mose Karanja via kictanet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>> Most honest line I have heard in a long time:
>>
>> "On fake news I think it's pretty sanctimonious of us to assume people
>> are idiots and don't know that they are reading fake news.”
>>
>> I don’t think there is an algorithm for that - yet.
>>
>> Feedly as an aggregator is great. I was toying with the idea of ‘peeping’
>> into other people’s feeds so that if you have aggregated news on tech, hate
>> speech, Kenya… and I am a Burkinabe who would want to know what is
>> happening in Kenya on hate speech, I can ‘peep’ into your feed and get
>> authentic verified news from the source.
>>
>> Most RSS feeds don’t have this feature and I think it is what ‘follow’ /
>> ‘like’ concepts on most Social Media platforms work on.
>>
>> -M
>>
>> On 23 Nov 2016, at 15:41, Sidney Ochieng <sidney.ochieng at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On fake news I think it's pretty sanctimonious of us to assume people are
>> idiots and don't know that they are reading fake news.
>>
>>
>> www.moseskaranja.com
>>
>>
>>
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