cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/52315107
Hrant Dink prominent author was assassinated by a Turkish fascist back on January 14, 2007. Alin Ozinian, another Armenian reporter, wanted to mark the day by sharing his portrait on Instagram. The photo was removed citing โdangerous organisations and individualsโ community standard.
fact checking and censorship is bad except when we cave to authoritarian governments zuck really is just like elon
Calling women property and transgender people mentally ill? We sleep
Post commemorating anti-genocide author who was assassinated thanks to the negligence of the country responsible for said genocide? Real shit
Iโd suggest posting this to any news community as it might not gain traction here in the technology community
Edit:
Looks like I was wrong so feel free to ignore this comment.Why not both? This deserves some attention.
True and fair enough๐
Good call, and glad this rose here
To play devils advocate here, a bad translation of the post might interpret the first half of the sentence as โthey should keep murdering youโ instead of โeven if they keep murdering youโ. But itโs Facebook, so they could also just be on the fascistsโ side.
No meta platform gets the benefit of the doubt from me anymore. Unless they can show it was a benign action, their history tells me they were probably being malicious.
Facebook should not be making content moderation decisions based on machine translations. They should be paying actual humans who can both speak the language and understand the cultural context of the posts. Yes, thatโs going to cost them more. They shouldnโt be allowed to operate if they donโt do it.
Possible translation:
Instagram found Hrant Dinkโs photo dangerous and removed it. Let me write them an email saying โthey killed him in the middle of the street, rewarded his killers, donโt be afraid of his dead body either.โ
(machine translated)
Potential interpretation:
Instagram has removed Hrant Dinkโs photo, deeming it dangerous. Let me write them an email: โThey killed him in the middle of the street and rewarded his killers - at least donโt be afraid of his dead body.โ
Iโm Turkish and Iโm struggling to translate it myself what the fuck is he trying to say???
Ah yes,
โInstagram removed Dinkโs image, so I sent them a mail: โThey killed him in middle of the street and afterwards awarded the murderers, so please donโt be afraid (remove) the image (for it is journalism and not gore I assume)โโ
Link to the original Tweet: https://x.com/AlinOzinian/status/1877991133285863613 Archived: http://archive.today/2025.01.11-093006/https://x.com/AlinOzinian/status/1877991133285863613
I hope to someday be cool enough to have my photo blocked from social media.
These social media companies need to stop interfering in political discussions.
I wonder if this was reported by someone or if itโs another case of modding by AI? Not that itโs excusable by any standard. Would be nice to know if the bias is human or machine.
You canโt โassassinateโ a portrait.
And people got mad at meta moving to community notes instead of shadowy truth police.
You think the company doesnโt have the ability to curate the notes allowed by the community or to farm their own? Itโs always possible for a site owner to shape the messages on the site, even if it comes to a point of direct database manipulation.
Well, obviously something more open is better, but progress is still progress.