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Saw a video get pulled down twice last week for showing a protest in Berlin
A friend posted a clip from a street rally there, and it got flagged for 'harmful content' within an hour... then he uploaded it again with a different title, and it got taken down a second time. How do platforms decide what counts as news versus something they need to remove?
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blairc906mo ago
Berlin's a funny place for that to happen... you'd think they'd have seen it all by now. The algorithm probably just saw a crowd and hit the panic button. It's not like they have real people checking these things, just some code that gets scared of its own shadow. The whole news versus harmful content line gets drawn by a robot with really bad eyesight.
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john_fisher5mo ago
Agree completely, it's the same problem @laura841 had with her cooking video. The code just sees shapes and movement, not the actual meaning behind them.
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nguyen.blake6mo ago
Man that's so frustrating, right? Feels like they just don't want us to see what's really happening.
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laura8416mo ago
Honestly, it's not just protests. I've had totally normal cooking videos get flagged for "dangerous acts" because I was using a sharp knife. Doesn't it feel like the filters are just getting worse at telling real life from actual problems? They're so scared of getting in trouble that they'd rather block anything that looks even a little bit lively.
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