仇恨言论在instagram上找到了归宿

国家紧急情况的后果遵循一种现在已经熟悉的模式。各种各样的坏演员竞相在社交平台上散布错误信息和赤裸裸的仇恨言论。记者对阴谋论和攻击性关键词进行简单搜索，并撰写故事记录他们的发现。平台迟迟才发表悔恨声明，说他们的平台上没有这种东西的位置，所有的证据都与此相反。...

国家紧急情况的后果遵循一种现在已经熟悉的模式。各种各样的坏演员竞相在社交平台上散布错误信息和**裸的仇恨言论。记者对阴谋论和攻击性关键词进行简单搜索，并撰写故事记录他们的发现。平台迟迟才发表悔恨声明，说他们的平台上没有这种东西的位置，所有的证据都与此相反。

起泡、冲洗、再喷。

然而，在上周的国内恐怖袭击之后，一种新的胆汁载体出现了。记者们在Instagram上发现的仇恨言论比以往任何时候都多。昨天，我提到了《****》的一篇报道，该报道发现了近12000篇贴有“jewsdid911”标签的帖子，暗示犹太人应对911事件负责。

今天，其他商店纷纷涌入。

在《每日野兽》（Daily Beast）中，威尔·索默（Will Sommer）探讨了被认为对推特来说太有害的右翼人物是如何在Instagram上获得庇护的，包括亚历克斯·琼斯（Alex Jones）、骄傲男孩创始人加文·麦金尼斯（Gavin McInnes）、右翼喜剧演员欧文·本杰明（Owen Benjamin）和米洛·伊安诺普洛斯（Milo Yiannopoulos）。

Yiannopoulos上周在Instagram的一篇帖子中哀叹发送给民主党领导人的邮件**没有爆炸，这引起了轩然**。在公众的强烈**后，该公司最初决定放弃这篇帖子，然后改弦更张。

与此同时，泰勒·洛伦兹（Taylor Lorenz）与凯特·弗里德曼·西格尔（Kate Friedman Siegel）进行了交谈，她发现Instagram在上个月报告反犹太主义直接消息时反应迟钝。西格尔的花柄是“疯狂的犹太人”，有80多万朵花。

Siegel shared screenshots of two anti-Semitic memes she had received via Instagram direct message in September, both of which the platform failed to take action on. One featured an oven with the phrase Jewish stroller plastered on top. The other was a Dr. Seuss parody book cover titled “Horton Hears a Jew,” by “Dr. Goebbels.” [...]

Siegel has received anti-Semitic messages since she started the account. But recently, they’ve reached a fever pitch. Siegel said she’s been tagged in memes that depict Adolf Hitler doing the Nazi salute, people desecrating the Israeli flag, people Photoshopping her as Anne Frank, people joking about putting her into a gas chamber, and worse. She reports the ones she sees to Instagram, but she gets so many notificati*** that there’s no easy way for her to keep track of which reports Instagram has taken action on and which it hasn’t.

我们很容易注意到，在Instagram的联合创始人辞职几周后，骚扰事件明显激增，标志着Instagram服务伪独立性的终结。但导致骚扰和仇恨言论的机制早在它们退出之前就存在了。上周我写了一些Instagram让偏执狂能够自我组织的方法：

The right wing adopted the hashtag #Soros to share many of these memes, and Instagram helpfully organized the most-engaged posts algorithmically. It auto-populated suggested searches for anyone who began to search for Soros: “soros caravan,” “soros bomb,” “soros jew,” all of which could lead users to further misinformation.

Instagram search results also auto-populated with a bunch of obviously fake Soros accounts, although many of them appear to have been taken down overnight.

这至少是Adam Mosseri和他的团队需要考虑的三个大问题：我们应该为Facebook禁止的人提供平台吗？为什么？我们是否在内容适度方面进行了足够的投资？我们平台的独特机制如何让坏演员组织和传播仇恨言论？

就在8月份，Instagram还被描述为一片绿洲——对一些老式社交网络感兴趣的人的最后避难所。过去几周的事件表明，时间已经结束。我们现在应该期待仇恨言论在Instagram上像在其他地方一样泛滥。

当下一场灾难来临时，Instagram可以打赌记者们会关注。

民主

我们冒充100名参议员在Facebook上登广告。Facebook批准了所有这些。

威廉·特顿做了一个特技。Facebook表示，它正在修复“付费”字段，该字段允许经过验证的广告商在一个自由格式的框中写任何他们想要的东西。但看起来选举到那时就要结束了：

On the eve of the 2018 midterm electi***, a VICE News investigation found the “Paid for by” feature is easily manipulated and appears to allow anyone to lie about who is paying for a political ad, or to pose as someone paying for the ad.

To test it, VICE News applied to buy fake ads on behalf of all 100 sitting U.S. senators, including ads “Paid for by” by Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer. Facebook’s approvals were bipartisan: All 100 sailed through the system, indicating that just about anyone can buy an ad identified as “Paid for by” by a major U.S. politician.

民主党人在Facebook上的广告支出是共和党人的3倍

Alexis Madrigal发现与2016年趋势相反：

According to an Atlantic ****ysis of the top 100 spenders, left-leaning candidates and causes spent $9.43 million from October 21 to October 27 alone, the most recent period for which Facebook data is available. The big spenders on the right spent only $2.65 million.

The top 100 ad buyers on Facebook included 55 left-leaning organizati*** and candidates, compared to just 22 from the right wing. The remaining 23 big spenders focused on state propositi*** or corporate campaigns.

特朗普与媒体：特朗普如何让媒体成为反对派

埃兹拉·克莱因探讨了为什么总统需要让媒体成为他的敌人，以及媒体如何无法抗拒与之合作：

Trump, in other words, manipulates the media using the same tactics as a run-of-the-mill alt-right troll, and for much the same reason: He wants the media to fight with him so he gets more coverage and shows how biased they are against him. He wants the media to fight him because that drives attention to the things he’s saying, to the c***piracies he’s popularizing, and to himself. Going to war with the media nets Trump much more coverage than giving a speech on manufacturing policy or tax cuts.

The problem is Donald Trump isn’t your run-of-the-mill troll. He’s the president of the United States of America.

推特刚刚推出了一个期中网页，它已经出现了巨魔和虚假的、超党派的新闻

推特建立了一个中期选举门户网站，展示关于政治的推特，自然充斥着来自巨魔的虚假声明和帖子。这一切都让我从掌上电脑换到了办公桌。Charlie Warzel和Ryan Mac：

A spokesperson for Twitter told BuzzFeed News that the midterms electi*** portal was like many of the pages the company creates for events like basketball games and natural disasters. An algorithm curates tweets based on certain keywords, and any content associated with those keywords is populated on the page. The Twitter spokesperson did not specify what keywords were being used for its midterms electi*** page. In a follow-up call, a Twitter spokesperson clarified that the ‘latest’ tab’s algorithm takes into c***ideration the accounts that a user follows as one of a number of signals in order to surface tweets. It is possible then, if a user follows a c***piratorial or automated feed, the algorithm could recommend similar c***piratorial or automated accounts. The page, the company noted, was designed less for Twitter power-users and more for newer users searching for useful news ahead of the election.

以下是机器人在新闻事件中推动对话的程度

说到与Twitter相关的FacePalm：

Late last week, about 60 percent of the conversation was driven by likely bots. Over the weekend, even as the conversation about the caravan was overshadowed by more recent tragedies, bots were still driving nearly 40 percent of the caravan conversation on Twitter. That’s according to an asses**ent by Robhat Labs, a startup founded by two UC Berkeley students that builds tools to detect bots online.

打击虚假信息是一项社会挑战：克里斯·丹尼尔斯，WhatsApp

在访问印度之前，今年早些时候接手WhatsApp的克里斯·丹尼尔斯（Chris Daniels）接受了雪莱·辛格（Shelley Singh）的电子邮件采访。Daniels主要发表谈话要点，值得注意的是，他努力将谈话转向WhatsApp作为商业工具的潜力。这里有一个直接来自Sheryl Sandberg收入报告手册的有趣轶事：

A key focus of my visit is how WhatsApp can support Indian businesses and drive economic growth. I believe there are over 50 million **all businesses in India. WhatsApp is building tools to help these businesses connect with their customers, respond to questi***, and close sales.

An eyewear company in Bengaluru called Glassic told us that 30% of their new sales come from WhatsApp chats. We’re announcing this week a project with Startup India where WhatsApp will directly support new Indian-owned businesses and entrepreneurs.

在别处

Facebook的增长继续放缓

Facebook的收入好坏参半。用户增长正在放缓，但尽管如此，该公司仍在增长。更有趣的是，马克·扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg）在投资者电话会议上表示，有一天，故事将超过饲料共享，Facebook Watch正在成为一个增长更快的视频观看目的地。

Facebook计划在华盛顿州雷德蒙（Redmond）设立一个靠近微软的工厂

Microsoft可能会有一个新邻居：

Redmond, Washington, has been the home of Microsoft for decades, but the maker of Word may soon have company. Facebook is planning a 650,000-square-foot office project in the city, according to a report Tuesday.

社交媒体能做些什么来阻止仇恨

伊娜·弗里德（Ina Fried）查看了一份民权组织联盟的报告，该报告呼吁社会平台采取更多措施控制仇恨言论的传播。正如她所指出的，平台的执行能力可能比政策本身更重要，因为政策本身基本上已经禁止了这些活动。

Specifically, the coalition recommends sites prohibit “hateful activity,” which it defines as “activities that incite or engage in violence, intimidation, haras**ent, threats, or defamation targeting an individual or group based on their actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability.”

Twitter解释了为什么切换到280个字符是个好主意

Twitter发布了一些数据，说明当它将字符限制扩展到280时发生了什么：

To start with, there’s been a 54 percent increase in the use of “please” and a 22 percent increase in the use of “thank you,” because there’s now room for more words. Twitter’s next point will make grammar purists happy: it says it’s seeing a decline in the use of abbreviati*** like “gr8” (-36%), “b4” (-13%) and “sry” (-5%). More users now tend to type the whole words, since they don’t have to worry about the character limit that much.

Vox.com的卡洛斯·马扎（Carlos Maza）对“不对称两极分化”进行了有价值的研究——当共和党人开始打破民主党的规范，揭露媒体对两党主义的承诺时发生了什么。

发射

詹姆斯·帕特森的下一部小说将在Facebook Messenger上发布

这绝对是放詹姆斯·帕特森下一部小说的完美地方，我不会听到其他的。

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我以为网络会阻止仇恨，而不是传播仇恨

Kara Swisher对社交媒体公司对最近国内恐怖主义行为的反应不屑一顾：

Social media platforms — and Facebook and Twitter are as guilty of this as Gab is — are designed so that the awful travels twice as fast as the good. And they are operating with sloppy disregard of the c***equences of that awful speech, leading to disasters that they then have to clean up after.

And they are doing a very bad job of that, too, because they are unwilling to pay the price to make needed fixes. Why? because draining the cesspool would mean losing users, and that would hurt the bottom line. C***ider this: On Monday, New York Times reporters easily found almost 12,000 anti-Semitic messages that had been uploaded to Instagram in the wake of the synagogue attack.