Meet your (Chinese) Facebook censors

Facebook engineers test hundreds of different iterations of the rankings to shape an optimal outcome and root out what bosses call borderline content.

It all makes for perhaps the most chillingly sophisticated censorship mechanism in human history. What they don t do is ban a specific pro-Trump hashtag, says the ex-insider. Instead, content that is a little too conservative, they will down-rank. You can t tell it s censored.

I won t share the names of the Facebook employees in question. The point isn t to spotlight individuals, but to show how foreign nationals from a state that still bans Facebook have their hands on the levers of social media censorship here in America.

The Hate-Speech Engineering team s staff includes a research scientist based at the Seattle office who earned his master s degree in computer engineering from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, according to his LinkedIn profile.

via nypost.com