周三，一份85页的文件泄露给布莱巴特新闻。这篇题为“优秀审查员”的演讲追溯了科技平台内容审查的发展到今天。这份文件更具描述性，而非规范性，旨在抓住当前的争论，而不是直接影响谷歌的领导地位。尽管如此，在坦率地谈论谷歌作为审查者的角色时，这份文件——你可以在这里完整地阅读——可能会激起新的呼吁，以控制平台的力量。

首先，一些背景。这次演讲是由一家名为Brand Studio的公司于今年3月组织的，该公司自称为“谷歌内部智囊团，利用创意、媒体、，它还有一个团队，负责开发“危机应对和可持续发展”项目。一般来说，Brand Studio会与专家交谈，撰写白皮书，并围绕这些白皮书进行各种营销噱头。

换句话说，泄露给Breitbart News的演示文稿不是谷歌搜索主管或YouTube首席执行官的备忘录。尽管如此，它还是值得一看，主要是因为它为谷歌、脸谱网和推特等公司围绕内容节制展开的辩论提供了框架。

演讲分为五个部分：描述****的重要性；概述不良行为和网络审查的范围；检查公司如何应对；审视世界各地****和审查制度之间的平衡；最后，询问人们希望谷歌如何回应。

作者到处寻找，他们发现人们用他们选择的表达方式“行为恶劣”。个人骚扰和虐待其他用户。****机器人、巨魔农场和黑客来发动影响力运动。科技公司宣传假新闻，适度投资不足，并从错误信息的传播中获利。

“分享、喜欢和点击诱饵标题——对于理性辩论来说，赚钱的在线对话不是好消息，”作者写道而且，当科技公司关注股东以及他们的****和审查价值观时，优先事项可能会变得有点混乱。”他们补充道：“在应对公众压力时，科技公司也没有很好地应对这种情况。”

科技公司管理不善的原因是什么？根据报告：内容节制指南的应用不一致；围绕其政策的不透明解释；低估问题的范围；响应时间慢；一种反动的姿态，似乎比解决根本问题更符合公众的看法。

那么谷歌应该怎么做呢？

“答案不是‘找到适当数量的审查制度’并坚持下去，”作者写道。取而代之的是：“谷歌可能会继续随着时代的变化而变化——改变它在审查多少方面的立场（由于公众、**或商业压力）。如果是这样的话，就必须承认这种地位的转变对用户和/或谷歌意味着什么。盲目或无声地向一个方向或另一个方向移动会激起用户的愤怒。”

报告中的其他建议：保持中立；”警察的语气而不是内容”；明确执行政策,；为围绕审查的全球政策提供理由；解释平台运行的基础技术；更好地谈论这一切。

该公司的一位发言人在电子邮件中告诉我，公司在内容节制方面的官方立场仍然是政治中立：

Google is committed to free expression — supporting the free flow of ideas is core to our mission. Where we have developed our own content policies, we enforce them in a politically neutral way. Giving preference to content of one political ideology over another would fundamentally conflict with our goal of providing services that work for everyone.

当然，如果不考虑蜻蜓计划，就不可能阅读报告或谷歌的声明。根据Ryan Gallagher在Intercept上的持续报道，谷歌计划中的中文搜索引擎将实现思想的自由流动。即使在美国用户呼吁技术平台限制用户自由以换取更多安全和保障的环境下，许多人仍然对搜索引擎禁止搜索词以支持独裁政权的想法感到畏缩。

这就是这份报告的核心无法解决的紧张局势。几乎我们所有人都会同意对****的一些限制是必要的。但我们中很少有人会同意这些限制应该是什么。成为一名优秀的审查员——或者至少是一名更为一致的审查员——是谷歌所能做到的。但在政治上保持中立可能是不可能的。

民主

民主党参议员呼吁调查Google+漏洞

参议员理查德·布卢门塔尔（Richard Blumenthal）致函联邦贸易委员会，要求对导致Google+关闭的数据泄露进行调查。

穆勒因帮助俄罗斯巨魔而被判最长刑期

28岁的理查德·皮恩多（Richard Pinedo）向俄罗斯人**被盗的银行账户，赚了9.5万美元，这些账户在2016年选举期间被用来购买互联网广告。今天，在承认一项身份欺诈重罪指控后，他被判6个月监禁和6个月家庭监禁。

在Facebook与假新闻的战争中，士兵们感觉自己被淹没了

Alexandra Stevenson与菲律宾新闻机构Rappler联系，后者是Facebook在菲律宾的事实核查员：

“It’s frustrating,” said Marguerite de Leon, 32, a Rappler employee who receives dozens of tips each day about false stories from readers. “We’re cleaning up Facebook’s mess.”

On the front lines in the war over misinformation, Rappler is overmatched and outgunned — and that could be a worrying indicator of Facebook’s effort to curb the global problem by tapping fact-checking organizati*** around the world. Civil society groups have complained that Facebook’s support is weak. Others have said the company doesn’t offer enough transparency to tell what works and what doesn’t.

推特，当地广播公司合作直播本地辩论

推特与当地广播公司签署了一项协议，播放可能涉及国家利益的七场辩论：

The seven debates that will be livestreamed throughout October include the debate between Sen. Cruz and Rep. O’Rourke and the Oregon governor’s race. Zuckerman said Twitter is actively looking to add more to the list.

在别处

Facebook正在公司外寻找Facebook的新面孔

库尔特·瓦格纳正在寻找接替埃利奥特·施拉格（Elliot Schrage）在Facebook工作的候选人。这将是一项困难的工作：沟通团队最近压力很大。一个人告诉我，最近的一次通信会议以眼泪结束：

“I can’t think of another company that’s facing the [challenges] they have, or even anticipated facing those [challenges],” said Brandee Barker, co-founder of The Pramana Collective, a marketing and communication firm. Barker was head of global communication and public policy at Facebook from 2006 to 2010, when the biggest issue facing the company was explaining its technology. When Facebook launched News Feed, angry users protested outside the company’s office.

“It’s clear that from when I was there the role has evolved so significantly,” Barker said. Noting that the job has two elements, she thinks it’s predominantly a policy role right now. “They have challenges now at the governmental level internationally, in the U.S., in the EU, and it will only continue to increase.”

青少年在Instagram上“经常”受到欺凌

在该公司承诺将通过某种方式将人工智能应用于照片来解决这一问题的一天后，泰勒·洛伦兹（Taylor Lorenz）对Instagram的欺凌行为进行了曝光：

According to a recent Pew survey, 59 percent of teens have been bullied online, and according to a 2017 survey conducted by Ditch the Label, a nonprofit anti-bullying group, more than one in five 12-to-20-year-olds experience bullying specifically on Instagram. “Instagram is a good place sometimes,” said Riley, a 14-year-old who, like most kids in this story, asked to be referred to by her first name only, “but there’s a lot of drama, bullying, and gossip to go along with it.”

Teenagers have always been cruel to one another. But Instagram provides a uniquely powerful set of tools to do so. The velocity and size of the distribution mechani** allow rude comments or harassing images to go viral within hours. Like Twitter, Instagram makes it easy to set up new, anonymous profiles, which can be used specifically for trolling. Most importantly, many interacti*** on the app are hidden from the watchful eyes of parents and teachers, many of whom don’t understand the platform’s intricacies.

什么是伏地魔？终极搜索引擎优化

格雷琴·麦库洛赫（Gretchen McCulloch）有一篇论文给这件事起了个名字，人们在社交媒体网站上称总统为“奇多”或其他什么：

A recent paper by researcher Emily van der Nagel puts a name to this phenomenon of hiding a word in plain sight. She calls it Voldemorting. Van der Nagel traces Voldemorting back to the Harry Potter books, where most characters are too afraid of Voldemort to say the word directly, instead replacing his name with euphemi**s like You Know Who and He Who Must Not Be Named. This practice starts as a superstition, but by the final book there’s a deeper purpose: The word Voldemort is revealed as a way of locating the resistance: “Using his name breaks protective enchantments, it causes some kind of magical disturbance.”

The internet practice of Voldemorting, van der Nagel says, comes via a comment left by a user named Eugene, who made the connection as part of a discussion about deliberately starving “trash celebrities” of attention by not referring to them by name.

英国的“新清**”：年轻人饮酒急剧下降

Iliana Magra报道，社交媒体的兴起是英国饮酒下降的主要原因：

Social media has made users more image-c***cious, he noted, while also providing lasting documentation, in text and images, of behavior people might prefer to forget.

“There’s a trend of greater sense of health c***ciousness among young people,” Mr. Nicholls added. “There’s a move away from alcohol and drugs, there’s less of a culture of intoxication.”

最后一批Google+用户的生活

Bijan Stephen与Google+顽固派联系：

“这可能不是一个令人惊异的网站，但感觉肯定是这样。用户Buruburedo Boudreaux问道：“那我为什么要搬家呢？”。

发射

Snapchat为Discover发布了一系列原创编程

当Snapchat试图为年轻一代改造MTV时，我前往圣莫尼卡采访Snap原创内容负责人肖恩·米尔斯：

In an interview at the company’s offices in Santa Monica, California, Mills said Snap’s original shows are engineered to succeed in the difficult environment of mobile video where viewers are never more than a thumb-tap away from abandoning a show. Snap Originals are designed to hook viewers within seconds and keep them stimulated with flashy visuals, he said.

“I feel like I’m watching the beginning of a fundamentally new medium, where people are just waking up to how you have to take a very different creative approach,” Mills said.

LinkedIn有一个新的人工智能功能来增加招聘的多样性

社交公司宣布已将人工智能应用于各种事物，而LinkedIn却没有参与竞争。今天，LinkedIn进入竞技场，宣布其人工智能将用于解决多样性问题。老实说，这些对我来说都不像人工智能：

LinkedIn will track what happens in the hiring process with regards to gender, showing companies reports and insights about how their job postings and InMail are performing on this. In addition, LinkedIn will re-rank the top search results in LinkedIn Recruiter to be more representative.

Magic Leap正在美国（大部分地区）运输

Magic Leap One Creator Edition混合现实耳机目前正以2295美元的低价在邻近的美国各地**。它将在您的Juicero旁边看起来很棒！

最后。。。

泰勒·斯威夫特（Taylor Swift）的Instagram帖子导致选民登记数量激增

在这位流行歌手打破了她传奇般的政治沉默后，她的歌迷们纷纷登记投票：

“We are up to 65,000 registrati*** in a single 24-hour period since T. Swift’s post,” said Kamari Guthrie, director of communicati*** for Vote.org.

For context, 190,178 new voters were registered nationwide in the entire month of September, while 56,669 were registered in August.

泰勒·斯威夫特又好了，我鼓励大家继续玩“甩掉”游戏。

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