Facebook turns on “Safety Check” for Brussels attack
After the phone networks buckled under the weight of communications in Belgium, people cried out for Facebook to turn on Safety Check. Facebook answered the call and activated its emergency service. Immediately, the notifications spilled in. Here’s how to see if you need to check in, check on friends in the area, or to tell someone you’re safe.
Reblogged from The Future Is Now
Facebook’s algorithm, I learned, isn’t flawed because of some glitch in the system. It’s flawed because, unlike the perfectly realized, sentient algorithms of our sci-fi fever dreams, the intelligence behind Facebook’s software is fundamentally human. Humans decide what data goes into it, what it can do with that data, and what they want to come out the other end. When the algorithm errs, humans are to blame. When it evolves, it’s because a bunch of humans read a bunch of spreadsheets, held a bunch of meetings, ran a bunch of tests, and decided to make it better. And if it does keep getting better? That’ll be because another group of humans keeps telling them about all the ways it’s falling short: us.
Facebook says it’s now streaming more video than YouTube. To be able to make that claim, all they had to do was cheat, lie, and steal.
Read more: Theft, Lies, and Facebook Video — Medium
(Source: medium.com)
If these companies can create self-driving cars and bring Internet to the entire world, it’s not that hard to hire more than one black woman per year.
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