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.

  • Dkarma@lemmy.world
    114·
    10 months 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·
      10 months 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.