Bard spotting on Bluesky 14 January 2025

Chad Loder (@chadloder.bsky.social):

Extremism researchers:

Do you think Facebook's disinformation features have ever approached anything close to 90% effectiveness in limiting the spread of disinfo on the platform, at any point in Meta's history?

Chad Loder (@chadloder.bsky.social):

"[Meta]'s own analyses found that these classifiers could reduce the reach of these hoaxes by more than 90 percent"

This 90% figure was never a real number. That's Meta's own number and nobody has ever reproduced it.

Anyone who monitors MAGA groups on Facebook knows that number is bullshit.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

FB isn't my scope, but I got into extremism research as platformed on Reddit by following the trail of the anthropogenic climate change denialist actors on Reddit, so Katharine Hayhoe's experience of Meta throttling her expert knowledge on the subject is very relevant.

Chad Loder (@chadloder.bsky.social):

I wonder if she'd mind being tagged

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I don't think she'd mind ^_^

bsky.app/profile/kath...

Katharine Hayhoe (@katharinehayhoe.com):

And then there's this. bsky.app/profile/kath...