The 'Brand Safety' and 'Suitability' industries have financially crushed the news business by keeping ads away from articles that its 'sentiment analysis' algorithms think will make people sad or upset.

The ‘Brand Safety’ and ‘Suitability’ industries have financially crushed the news business by keeping ads away from articles that its ‘sentiment analysis’ algorithms think will make people sad or upset.

  • trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    72·
    1 year ago

    No. I don’t think any of these points are made in the 404media article:

    Conservatives are (partially) right about woke capitalism. It is a threat to democracy. Concentrating the power to decide who gets to speak and what they get to say into the hands of five or six corporations, mostly run by mediocre billionaires, is bad for society. The moderation decisions of giant platforms are a form of (commercial) censorship, even these don’t violate the First Amendment:
    …
    (The progressive delusion that censorship only occurs when the First Amendment is violated is a wild own-goal, one that excuses, for example, the decision by school book-fair monopolist Scholastic to remove books about queers and Black and brown people from its offerings as a purely private matter without consequences for free speech):
    …
    The reason to deplore Nazis on Twitter is because they are Nazis, not because their content isn’t brand-safe. The short-term wins progressives gain by legitimizing a corporate veto over what we see online are vastly overshadowed by the most important consequence of brand safety: the mass extinction of reality-based reporting. Reality isn’t brand safe. If you’re in the reality based community, brand safety should be your sworn enemy, even if they help you temporarily get a couple of Nazis kicked off Twitter.

    • Dkarma@lemmy.world
      114·
      1 year ago

      Holy shit I don’t even know where to start with the massive list of strawman arguments put forth in this article.
      It decries “woke capitalism”. Lol

      Wtf is woke capitalism?

      The first amendment statement is just simply… wrong.

      The idea that the problem with social media is really that people aren’t allowed to just say anything without limitations is outright wacky.

      Yes let’s just end terms of service…says this guy apparently.

      These people are dangerously clueless.

      • trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        43·
        1 year ago

        Wtf is woke capitalism?

        A term Republicans use when portraying themselves as victims of a conspiracy among corporations to censor their views and arguments. It is used in a similar manner as “the liberal media.”

        Did you read the article?

        https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/11/ad-jacency/

        Which brings me to “woke capitalism.” Conservative string-pullers have whipped up their base about the threat of companies embracing social causes. They (erroneously) claim that corporations have progressive values, and that big business is thumbing the scales for causes they despise. The purpose here isn’t to sow distrust of capitalism per se. Rather, it’s to stampede talk-radio-addled supporters into backing the oligarchy’s agenda. Remember when culture war leaders told their base to support being gouged on credit-card junk fees “to own the libs?”

        The first amendment statement is just simply… wrong.

        That is not terribly convincing.