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Hi! Birdwatch ML Engineer here-- these context notes are from Birdwatch. They are written and rated by users, and the notes are only added as context to Tweets
by jaybaxter 4y ago
Hi! Birdwatch ML Engineer here-- these context notes are from Birdwatch. They are written and rated by users, and the notes are only added as context to Tweets if they are rated highly enough by multiple raters who have tended to disagree in the past. The core algorithm is open source as well as all of the data, and there is lots of public documentation about it too:
https://twitter.github.io/birdwatch/ https://twitter.github.io/birdwatch/
https://twitter.com/birdwatch/status/1585794012052611076?s=20&t=OgnNrax87nd1h-de7F7qOg https://twitter.com/birdwatch/status/1585794012052611076?s=2...
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.15723.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.15723.pdf
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- NaturalPhallacy 4y agoThis is one of the coolest things I've seen out of twitter. Now if only if the feed would stop disappearing tweets in the middle of reading them, that would be great.
- still_grokking 4y agoDisappearing tweets without site reloads? I guess this can't happen with the Nitter front-end. Just use LibRedirect. https://libredirect.github.io/ https://libredirect.github.io/
- NaturalPhallacy 4y agoYes. As in I'm looking at the screen reading a tweet, and it vanishes in some animated fashion with me not doing anything. It's not gone, but I have to know how to find it to see it again.
- r721 4y agoIsn't that one of peculiarities of algorithmic timeline? At least chronological one is the same after reloading.
- antifa 4y agoA lot of apps (I don't really use Twitter, but assume this of it) do this thing where you're at a page/view you'd like to return to later, so when you actually do return later (either by switching between apps or unlocking your device) then all the content you wanted to continue is right there as expected, ready to go, then the app unexpectedly triggers an unwanted refresh animation then takes you to the homepage or if not that, it could be impossible or unclear how to get back to what you were just doing/reading. Firefox for android doesn't do this, nextdoor does.
- NaturalPhallacy 4y agoWhat I'm seeing is individual tweets disappearing while looking at my feed. And it's animated + 144hz monitor so I can see them fly away into the either. Sometimes while reading them and about to click on them. And then I can't. It's really annoying.
- r721 4y agoYeah, it's a common complaint, seen it on HN and Twitter quite a few times. In fact, there was recently a joke tweet with 95k likes about it: >Twitter laid me off today. If you know of any open positions for project managers and senior software engineers, let me know. I was the PM in charge of that feature that shows you a good tweet before the whole timeline refreshes so you can't find it https://twitter.com/bantablack/status/1586080710468648960 https://twitter.com/bantablack/status/1586080710468648960
- faeriechangling 4y agoReally admire your work man. I honestly felt nothing but contempt for the oligarchic structure of fact checking. Facebook hired organisations like the Washington Post to do their fact checking. I have not forgotten how many people there lies killed in Iraq. I don't forget how the journalists at the time were willing to compromise their ethics in exchange for White House access and exclusive stories from the front lines, simply because journalistic interest is not the public interest. We also saw more recently during the pandemic incompetent journalists without adequate medical training censoring BMJ articles from Facebook: https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o95 https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o95. You are making one of the only tools I can see that can possibly make "fact-checking" a reality in a nominally unbias way that can be broadly accepted by the public. A democratic fact-checking system for a largely democratic website. Even if birdwatch will get things wrong, I appreciate the effort to reform this institution of "fact-checking" with something righteous and moral. No need to touch on my spicy political views, but I think this is a transparent, scalable, fair tool that can truly be embraced by the entire society rather than simply leading to a partisan divide. Your system understands I'm on social media because I want to hear what the average person has to say, and I would go to a news website if I wanted to get a news websites take on what the facts were. To me, if a news website wants people on twitter or Facebook to pay attention to their "fact check" editorial, they should do it the same way everybody else has to. By creating compelling writing that gets attention and that people agree with.
- throwawaycdf 4y agoIronically their site tagline is "democracy dies in darkness"
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- SanjayMehta 4y agoThe Guardian's comment section was called "Comment is Free," but was heavily moderated.
- SilasX 4y ago>They are written and rated by users, and the notes are only added as context to Tweets if they are rated highly enough by multiple raters who have tended to disagree in the past. Interesting, I remember someone on /r/slatestarcodex having the idea to rate/sort reddit comments by that metric, which I dub "sort by should-be-uncontroversial" (because normally-disagreeing people all think it's correct). (Then again, it almost might incentivize politician-style vacuous/feel-good statements.)
- Railander 4y ago>it almost might incentivize politician-style vacuous/feel-good statements They for sure would since there's a word for that: demagoguery.