- Published on March 9, 2020
- In Deep Tech
Ads, Tweets And Vlogs: How Censorship Works In The Age Of Algorithms
- By Ram Sagar
Over the last seven days, online media moguls Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have been in the news for stifling the content on their platforms.
While Facebook is removing the campaign ads of Donald Trump, YouTube has reportedly halved the number of conspiracy theory videos. Whereas, Twitter took a resolve to tighten the screws on hate speech or dehumanising speech as they call it.
YouTube Says Enough Conspiracies Theories
In January 2019, YouTube said it would limit the spread of videos “that could misinform users in harmful ways.”
YouTube’s recommendation algorithm follows a technique called Multi-gate Mixture Of Experts. Ranking with multiple objectives is really a hard task, so the team at YouTube decided to mitigate the conflict between multiple objectives using Mu
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Ram Sagar
I have a master's degree in Robotics and I write about machine learning advancements.
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