It probably won't end Facebook scandalsI now feel that it is one of the heads of evil in the world represented by Mark Zuckerberg, its chairman, and among the new scandals is the exit of one of the managers from Facebook to expose the company’s bad practices in several areas, especially content management, which leads to bad results and favors the company’s financial interest above all, Among these practices is neglecting or incorrectly managing our content in the Arab world.
Why do we need content management?
Most of the time, big companies have to manage their content to fit the bill. The platform should not increase interaction with posts that incite violence or racism, etc. So companies manage the content by placing human monitors as well as artificial intelligence and the latter bears most of the management since humans cannot alone monitor millions of posts. And when the AI finds a bad post and deletes it, humans sometimes check it out to verify that it hasn't made a mistake.
what's the problem?
Facebook is now present in many countries of the world, and in many countries there are no widespread Internet services, but there is a free Facebook through agreements with telecommunications companies. For some residents of these countries, the meaning of the Internet is Facebook, but the company does not manage content in the same way in every market in which it is located. It finds content management in English and in North America, in stages, better than managing content in the Arab region, then you find African and Asian countries that are almost non-existent. Managing content in a way that negatively affects society and even leads to crimes across the platform, ranging from small problems to major crimes such as human trafficking.
The company wants to interact
The Facebook platform prefers posts with high interaction and delivers them to many people in order to earn more, but the problem with these types of posts is that the most interaction is the posts that contain gay opinions, fights, or something polarizing such as political battles. With this, the platform exited from its primary role as a means of communication between family and friends into an open space for quarrels and the development of abnormal or wrong ideas. Only if it gets a lot of interaction, whether negative or positive, it does not matter. If you comment on a post in agreement or disagreement with it, this is considered an interaction and leads to it reaching more people.
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Facebook wants a presence in all countries of the world but does not want to spend to improve content monitoring everywhere, especially in markets that do not generate profits parallel to the profits in richer countries and where governments also do not care about Facebook's efforts to monitor content well. There are even governments taking advantage of this, as is happening in Myanmar and using the Facebook platform to target Muslims there.
The problem with the Arabic language
Among the many problems of Facebook's preferential policies, the problem of the Arabic language has emerged mainly. Users in the Arab region spend more time on Facebook than any other geographic region, but with this, the company still does not invest well in the Arabic language and manage the content written in it. So it always happens that posts are deleted or their owners are accused of inciting hate speech or the like just because the artificial intelligence has misunderstood the language. In fact, sometimes warnings are placed on pictures of a book of remembrances, for example. Apart from the artificial intelligence system, the human system is also not good, as most Facebook content managers in the Arab world are concentrated in Casablanca - Morocco only and they manage content for all the region, including the different dialects, so it is natural that many, many errors occur, and although these employees Claiming to know all Arabic dialects, they incorrectly flagged 77% of the posts they found "terrorist".
This was highlighted in the recent crisis when any publication that talks about the Zionist occupation state in Arabic was marked as a publication calling for violence or terrorism, etc. It was followed by a wave of lawsuits to rate Facebook on its software stores with one star.
Three classes of countries
In the leaked papers, it was found that Facebook categorizes countries in three categories in terms of providing electronic protection against false information and news, especially in times of elections and political changes. The highest of these categories is “Category Zero”, which includes India, the United States, and Brazil, and this category is prepared for large teams that are similar to war rooms to confront misinformation and publications that violate the rules of the platform. Then comes “Category 1”, which includes Germany, Indonesia, the Zionist occupation state, Iran, and Italy, and these countries have rooms similar to Category 0 with less management throughout the year, and then come Category 2 and 3, which are the countries with the least content management and investment by Facebook. The Arab world is in this category.
In some countries, the terms of use of the platform are not even translated into their local languages. In Afghanistan, for example, it is difficult for non-English speaking residents to file complaints as the terms of the platform are not translated into the official languages spoken in the country.
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It is usual for companies that invest in different markets to diversify the amounts of investments in each market according to profits in it or different government pressures, but the case of Facebook is unique in that the platform has great power that can be abused poorly and can cause negative results even unexpectedly. Therefore, it is dangerous to leave the company to continue its current practices and neglect many markets, and it must invest equally in any market it decides to enter. one office. What is the solution? We don't know, we are not decision makers. But as a start, we know that the company must be held accountable for its mistakes and look at it carefully, rather than waiting for members from within it to defect and expose its bad practices from time to time.
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According to my personal opinion, there is no need for Facebook with its content
Facebook has become bad in its dealings with all users, what is wrong with the Arabs, who are considered a second degree and may be third according to Facebook in terms of interest
And we all saw the recent leaks that led Facebook to change its name to Meta, and this shows that in Arabic they have the right to profit and peace. They do not care about any laws or harm to societies, a problem.
This article is very nice and I would like to focus on just two points
The first administration located in Morocco
The second is to generalize their dialect to all countries
We have in Yemen the word zamil meaning the house and the two houses of poetry, which is said on occasions and it is a culture prevalent in Yemen, but the same word (zamil) means in the abnormal Morocco or the like
Artificial intelligence has been directed to consider the word a severe abuse and many have been banned because of that
شكرا لكم
If the US Congress considers Facebook a pariah because of its disgusting policies, what can we say?
Facebook will collapse soon, God willing
“In this way, the platform exited from its primary role as a means of communication between family and friends into an open space for quarrels and the development of abnormal or wrong ideas. Only if it gets a lot of interaction, whether negative or positive, it does not matter.”
This is how humans are, the platform did not come up with anything from its imagination.
Agreeing or disagreeing on a post or opinion is human nature, what do you want Facebook to do?!
In Afghani?! Have you seen a social networking site or application in the Afghan language with my love for them of course?
Originally, Facebook is working to spread hatred, especially in the Islamic community, and this is why we see chaos prevailing more with the presence of Facebook and other communication sites.
The company's reputation was bad from the start
This is due to the malicious behavior of its owner
This is evident from his interest in buying networks that have a high audience, such as WhatsApp and Instagram
The succession of the company's scandals during the recent years shows the focus of its owner's interest
This article reveals his classification of peoples and countries
From what I knew about him and the company, I avoided all these networks
But people force me to use WhatsApp
Fortunately, I use it to a minimum
Especially in part of my field of work
In Algeria, the use of Facebook is very widespread. For me, I made it to spread the Sunnah, the legal science and the general benefits according to the occasions and events.
Kamal, Sheikh Al-Fawzan, may God preserve him, said:
Do not leave the social networking sites for the people of evil and misguidance, they harass them in it and turn the truth against the falsehood.
I never use it
It can be used for more than two years and also very little in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries as well
Personally, I do not find it strange. They have their beliefs and they do not believe others, despite their claim. How many scandalous publications that affect morals, some of which affect human rights, and some that incite hatred.. Despite that, you receive the response “We have reviewed your report on such a publication, although we do not We find it against community standards but thank you for informing….” Whatever the post is against, you will not be heard about it
Really an application that violates people's privacy and more than that it is not completely Arabic and many problems and bad management really everyone who has this application on his device delete it immediately,,,
The only application that I can not stand and will not download it and few use it and most of those who use it in the Arab world for the game of PUBG and Fortnite < In short and with all due respect to the author of the topic, this application does not deserve a space for discussion 🙂 If my memory does not betray me, take a very bad evaluation for Palestine and boycott it, I do not know why I came back to him 🤨
You are right, but unfortunately it is very necessary in a country like Egypt, as is the necessity of Twitter in the Gulf countries // Imagine, my dear brother in Egypt, millions of people use it because it is not games, but for work, study and following the news. Unfortunately, it has become with many scandals as important as Twitter..
Thank God for the blessing of reason. Personally, I do not have anything on my phone called social media, whether Facebook and his brothers or Twitter without telegram to reach my loved ones
Because these social media applications are the axis of evil in the world and the Arab world is still in Dar Ghaflon
God is enough, and yes, the agent
We said and spoke that the Arab world should delete this malicious application so that they know who the Arabs are
Please, dear friends, delete it
All this talk is observed and the examples are repeated on a daily basis
The new one, but leaking reports that the Facebook administration is aware and silent
Unfortunately, there are many worse cases and models than the examples in this article
There are currently a lot of paid ads on Facebook for some applications that promote prostitution under the name of video chat
It is assumed that paid ads will have a prior review before publishing, but it is clear that the Facebook administration does not do this review
More than once I see advertisements written inside the pictures, explicit promotional statements about prostitution, such as (* beads close to you, I want @&$( (something big)
Even worse, I made reports on some of these ads, and the response came to me that they do not violate the standards
Unfortunately, the issue has passed the stage of neglect to the stage of deliberate
Also in the Facebook application there are technical errors, every time I update it solves a problem and a new problem comes up
for example
Once the application does not support the Arabic language
And once the notifications or specific notifications stopped
And once the application has come out of itself to the home page
And once the app freezes when browsing, I don't have to log out and log in again
And once the small comments do not appear, but instead the word (view more…) appears.
Also, the comments appear to me not concatenated by date (I comment with a comment that becomes in the middle)
And other errors I don't remember
In general, the app is very bad
Non-chain comments are a great example of what we're talking about in this article. Since comments are not ordered by date unless you choose to. But it is usual to arrange them according to interaction, and the comment with the most interaction is raised to the top
My only use of it is to tie up my progress in games, yet I feel like I'm addicted and my decision is out of place! But the game companies force you (which is from cooperation) with Facebook to do so :S
Unfortunately, this Facebook is siding with Israel and some countries that pose a threat to it. I hope for the emergence of a respectable company that respects the Middle East and the Arabs, and I hope that it will be an Arab production so that there will be a union at the same time between them, and in this case the scales will turn globally.
Freedom of speech or expression of opinion is just a lie, even in America
In the Gulf, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the rest of the countries, the number of users is almost 0, I personally do not know a challenge that mainly uses it
I respect your point of view, but there are many users around you. It is possible for those around you to use them, but in the Gulf and the Kingdom in particular, there are many users, although the focus is on Twitter for the Gulf, but its users remain many in the region
Facebook is the worst company in the world
In terms of it deletes posts that do not deserve deletion and allows posts that should not be published
It even deletes a post that talks about Palestine and does not contain anything to question the deletion, but it only allows posts that are only vulgar words, and what are the criteria, we do not know
I can't stand this program since I heard about it
One of the things I noticed last year during the months I was using Facebook is that they always ignore my reports of videos that include blatant nudity (published by some perverts) that is prohibited by Facebook rules. And they always wrote that they couldn't review it humanly and that the AI failed to recognize the abuse (it can't see the nipples!).