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    theatlantic: The Perfect Technocracy: Facebook’s Attempt to Create Good Government for 900 Million People It’s not hard to imagine making one or 20 or even 200 decisions about photographs or status updates in a week, but it’s mindboggling to consider that Facebook has to process 2 million reports per week, and that’s not including simple “mark as spam” messages. How do you design a system to deal with that workload? I spoke with James Mitchell, who helms what Facebook calls “site integrity” within its user-operations department, and Jud Hoffman, the company’s global policy manager about the reporting process. They are the architects of Facebook’s technocracy. Read more. [Image: Reuters/Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg] yes.
    Source: The Atlantic

    theatlantic:

    The Perfect Technocracy: Facebook’s Attempt to Create Good Government for 900 Million People

    It’s not hard to imagine making one or 20 or even 200 decisions about photographs or status updates in a week, but it’s mindboggling to consider that Facebook has to process 2 million reports per week, and that’s not including simple “mark as spam” messages.

    How do you design a system to deal with that workload? I spoke with James Mitchell, who helms what Facebook calls “site integrity” within its user-operations department, and Jud Hoffman, the company’s global policy manager about the reporting process. They are the architects of Facebook’s technocracy.

    Read more. [Image: Reuters/Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg]

    yes.

    (via emergentfutures)

    theatlantic:

    The Perfect Technocracy: Facebook’s Attempt to Create Good Government for 900 Million People

    It’s not hard to imagine making one or 20 or even 200 decisions about photographs or status updates in a week, but it’s mindboggling to consider that Facebook has to process 2 million reports per week, and that’s not including simple “mark as spam” messages.

    How do you design a system to deal with that workload? I spoke with James Mitchell, who helms what Facebook calls “site integrity” within its user-operations department, and Jud Hoffman, the company’s global policy manager about the reporting process. They are the architects of Facebook’s technocracy.

    Read more. [Image: Reuters/Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg]

    yes.

    (via emergentfutures)

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    date:
    Jun 24, 2012 (a Sunday)
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    1:45:46 (11 months ago)

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