Using “Snowball” Method: Facebook Promotes Holocaust Denial Contents

Using “Snowball” Method: Facebook Promotes Holocaust Denial Contents A new report published by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue said, "we found that when a user follows public pages containing Holocaust denial content, Facebook actively promotes further Holocaust denial content to that user." Using the “snowball” method, Facebook users who interact with Holocaust denial content are being directed to similar content via Facebook's automated algorithms. Although that Facebook was the only service that actively surfaced additional related content, the report found similar Holocaust denial content available through Reddit, Twitter and YouTube. Is Facebook really struggling with policing hate speech and divisive content? A report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a British think tank, shows that Facebook not only hosts anti-Semitic content denying that the Holocaust happened, but that it continues to present that content to users. Facebook is facing a big problem with its suggestion algorithms. Facebook collects very detailed information about how users interact with everything on the social network, and it tailors itself to each user based on that information. But the same suggestion algorithms that drove additional content to deny the Holocaust are the basis of how the world's largest social network works. Zuckerberg, who is Jewish, has previously spoken to his own struggle with moderating a subject like Holocaust denial on Facebook. He told Recode in July 2018: "I'm Jewish, and there's a set of people who deny that the Holocaust happened. I find that deeply offensive, but at the end of the day, I don't believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong."   You might also be interested in:

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