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> > The Nobel Peace Center advertised the event precisely on social media, but the ad on Facebook was removed, without further explanation, as "political advertising". The center has been able to advertise other events on Facebook without any problems.

> more inclined to just think that once again the ML enforcement models that the company uses have thrown a false positive

Sorry, but when Aunt Agatha shows up dead in the library, the butler who benefits from the will, and gives her medication, is first on the list.

That's why I think your analysis is itself problematic and part of what's going wrong here.

What do you mean by false positive? On what criteria, that you personally know about how Facebook selects what to censor, do you "just think" such apologetics are deserved?

I don't wish to pick on you alone, because it's a trope here that we rush to defend self-evidently rotten technologies and their application by crying "just a bug!", "just a glitch!". It's because we love the technology and mistake an attack on those who abuse it for an attack on what we identify with.

> more than there being some shady desire to silence the event

That's far too charitable. They have every motive to silence the event, and the means, and a kind of ever-fresh alibi that "the machine did it".




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