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Chris Remington ( remington@beehaw.org ) MA to Technology · 1 year ago

How language is hiding the real internet from you

www.bbc.com

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How language is hiding the real internet from you

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Chris Remington ( remington@beehaw.org ) MA to Technology · 1 year ago
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Most of the internet is out of your reach, but the barrier isn't just algorithms. In another language, the same platforms turn into to whole other worlds.
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  • t3rmit3 ( t3rmit3@beehaw.org ) 
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    One of the interesting things of exploring other languages on especially social media is that you realize just how un-moderated the US platforms are for anything but English. When people talk about Facebook advancing genocides, it’s the platforms not bothering to moderate non-English content but still applying their maximum-engagement algorithms in those spaces, so you get this snowballing of negative content.

    Be wary if you go looking for non-English social media (it’s actually not hard at all, you use a VPN and change either your OS or browser locale settings), because you can easily end up seeing some grisly stuff.

  • Tim_Bisley ( Tim_Bisley@piefed.social ) 
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    This article and also this one at https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250306-inside-youtubes-hidden-world-of-forgotten-videos were interesting reads. It would be nice if they offered some pointers on how to better find this stuff.

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