Facebook reaches out to China for censors


Source: causeaction.com causeaction.com

Key Topics in this News Article:

News Snapshot:

https://www.wnd.com/2020/10/facebook-reaches-china-censors/ The New York Post’s op-ed editor reports a Facebook insider has revealed that Chinese nationals are part of team of fact-checkers for the social-media giant. Sohrab Ahmari wrote in a column for his paper: “China is one of the most censorious societies on Earth. So what better place for Facebook to recruit social media censors?” He said at least half a dozen Chinese nationals, according to an internal directory, are part of the Orwellian “Hate-Speech Engineering” team, mostly based at Facebook’s offices in Seattle. “Many have Ph.D.s, and their work is extremely complex, involving machine learning — teaching ‘computers...