Ryan Knutson

adjudicating this stuff was like really difficult and also whatever a human might decide about things like that trying to get an algorithm to make a similar decision is like was like nearly impossible so it was this i think a very frustrating process for particularly for a bunch of very tech-minded people um because these were not problems that lent themselves to like

just building a solution, a technical solution, and like setting it loose and moving on to the next problem. They were like kind of chronic, societal, context-based, all the things that tech does not succeed at, if that makes sense.

just building a solution, a technical solution, and like setting it loose and moving on to the next problem. They were like kind of chronic, societal, context-based, all the things that tech does not succeed at, if that makes sense.

just building a solution, a technical solution, and like setting it loose and moving on to the next problem. They were like kind of chronic, societal, context-based, all the things that tech does not succeed at, if that makes sense.

There's the question of like, why are Christian posts about abortion getting taken down by fact checkers? Why are so many conservative news outlets being penalized for false news? Why wasn't I allowed to say this particular word about that particular group when I can say it on the street and it's perfectly legal? And so there was a lot of concern that Facebook was over-enforcing on the right.

There's the question of like, why are Christian posts about abortion getting taken down by fact checkers? Why are so many conservative news outlets being penalized for false news? Why wasn't I allowed to say this particular word about that particular group when I can say it on the street and it's perfectly legal? And so there was a lot of concern that Facebook was over-enforcing on the right.

There's the question of like, why are Christian posts about abortion getting taken down by fact checkers? Why are so many conservative news outlets being penalized for false news? Why wasn't I allowed to say this particular word about that particular group when I can say it on the street and it's perfectly legal? And so there was a lot of concern that Facebook was over-enforcing on the right.

And every time there was a moderation mistake, and a lot of them happen, you know, there was the implication that this was Facebook acting to harm conservatives.

And every time there was a moderation mistake, and a lot of them happen, you know, there was the implication that this was Facebook acting to harm conservatives.

And every time there was a moderation mistake, and a lot of them happen, you know, there was the implication that this was Facebook acting to harm conservatives.

Facebook had purposely and routinely suppressed conservative stories from trending news.

Facebook had purposely and routinely suppressed conservative stories from trending news.

Facebook had purposely and routinely suppressed conservative stories from trending news.

Mark never loved this stuff. Mark, I think, was always deeply skeptical of human intervention of any variety in the system.

Mark never loved this stuff. Mark, I think, was always deeply skeptical of human intervention of any variety in the system.

Mark never loved this stuff. Mark, I think, was always deeply skeptical of human intervention of any variety in the system.

I think it's kind of part of an overall, I would say, shift in Silicon Valley in which dominant companies have all been making extremely nice with the incoming administration.

I think it's kind of part of an overall, I would say, shift in Silicon Valley in which dominant companies have all been making extremely nice with the incoming administration.

I think it's kind of part of an overall, I would say, shift in Silicon Valley in which dominant companies have all been making extremely nice with the incoming administration.

And obviously, Donald Trump had made clear that he very much cared about whether Facebook was stacked against him and that he did not trust the company and its liberal employee base, to be fair, and that he might go after Mark Zuckerberg personally if Mark Zuckerberg didn't oblige.