Analysis: In Ukraine, tech platforms abandon the illusion of neutrality
, garnering more than 22,000 likes. “We no longer trust anyone to decide for us what is ‘misinformation’. Let us make our own calls about that. Otherwise you’re just another tentacle for some Ministry of Truth.”The reality, as all major search engine providers have long privately understood, is that there is no such thing as an unbiased search algorithm.
Facebook’s race-blind practices around hate speech came at the expense of Black users, new documents show Facebook, meanwhile, has spent years trying to thread a needle between presenting itself as a neutral platform for all ideas on the one hand, and a responsible actor that polices hate, misinformation, and threats to the integrity of democratic elections on the other. All the while, it has relied heavily on a lengthy, byzantine set of “community standards” that it purports to apply objectively, without political favor, in deciding which posts and accounts to allow and which to take down.
Of course, there is no perfect, global rule book for the bounds of acceptable speech. And neutrality, even if it were possible, is a dubious north star, one that leads to false equivalence between truthtellers and liars, or oppressors and the oppressed. And so, in practice, Facebook is constantly bending, amending, and adding to those rules as circumstances and public pressures necessitate.
It’s an understandable move: to ban or suppress the speech of Ukrainian users advocating or organizing resistance at a time when their country is under attack and their lives are on the line would seem cruel, maybe even evil. Yet it raises fair questions about why Facebook has refused to take such a principled stand in other contexts, such as its long-standing
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