Content moderation is nearly impossible at scale, and social media companies rely on people to review content, when AI cannot succeed. Facebook moderators, have already gotten a fair amount of media attention for being traumatized by the images of hate and violence they see in their jobs. Now, Candie Frazier, […]
YouTube Cofounder Dislikes Not Having A Dislike Button
Jawed Karim, a cofounder of YouTube, is as displeased as everyone else with the removal of the dislike button. Karim uploaded the first video to YouTube titled Me at the zoo back on April 23, 2005. The description is now a six-paragraph rant over this change ending with, “In business, there’s only one […]
YouTube Is Removing The Dislike Count From Videos: We Dislike This
YouTube will start hiding from public view the dislike count on all videos. The service will keep the thumbs-down button but the overall count showing how hated a video is will now be hidden. YouTube said in a blog post that “we experimented with the dislike button to see whether or not […]
YouTube Doesn’t Radicalize People and Video Games Don’t Create Murderers
The idea that the YouTube algorithm “radicalizes” people always sounded a bit off, but data keeps showing the idea is probably bullshit. A study published in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America), one of the three most prestigious general-science journals, says little to […]
DCC Web Round Up – October 2021
Relentless ‘Facebook Papers’ Leaks Will Continue Until Morale Improves “The deluge of damning news stories about Facebook (now named Meta) is far from over. These stories were made possible thanks to Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, a former employee who recently leaked thousands of internal documents, including internal employee discussions, memos, research, and presentations, to a consortium of […]
‘Metaverse’ The Modern-day ‘Utopia’
Yesterday, Facebook’s announcement of a restructure and new parent company, ‘Meta’, caused no shortage of headlines and stupid predictions; Often made by people with the singular goal of gaining fleeting attention. Those people were and are mirroring the purpose of Facebook’s announcement. Facebook announced the name change following some of […]
YouTube Wants To Leave Roku. Congress May Stop Them.
I’ve written it before, Roku is a fantastic company. And while I’m not sure I’ve written it down, I have two deeply held beliefs: the U.S. government will be performative, and publicly traded companies will be cutthroat. “YouTube is leaving Roku. And now the fight between the two companies has caught […]
Virtual Experiences The New Reality
The last two years have been a whirlwind for everyone. I’m deeply empathetic to those who have lost someone, like me, been ill, or suffered economically. The last couple of years showed a massive cultural shift towards everything but the essential taking place online. The new reality is virtual. Restaurants […]
YouTube Will Now Remove Videos Claiming Fraud Change Results Of The U.S. Presidential Election
YouTube will now remove videos containing election misinformation: The company says starting today it will, now remove misleading videos that claim widespread fraud or other errors changed the outcome of the US presidential election. This change comes now that “enough states have certified their election results to determine a President-elect.” […]
YouTube’s New Ad Policy Will Be A Win For Vimeo
YouTube will now run ads on channels outside of the Partner Program, and this spells like a win for Vimeo. YouTube’s change will expand ad their inventory by allowing ads to be served on any video on hosted the site (potentially, content guidelines will still exist). But the change will […]