When Facebook Thinks What You Say Is Irrelevant

    Okay so one might consider everything Robert Scoble says to be a form of human spam. But a comment of his being inadvertently blocked by Facebook for "seem[ing] irrelevant or inappropriate" does raise hard questions about the broader issue what it means to communicate so extensively through a platform that uses machine algorithms to determine the relevancy of speech. Are you and what you have to say relevant, person?

    Matt Buchanan
    by Matt Buchanan

    BuzzFeed Staff

    When Facebook Thinks What You Say Is Irrelevant

    techcrunch.com

    Okay so one might consider everything Robert Scoble says to be a form of human spam. But a comment of his being inadvertently blocked by Facebook for "seem[ing] irrelevant or inappropriate" does raise hard questions about the broader issue what it means to communicate so extensively through a platform that uses machine algorithms to determine the relevancy of speech. Are you and what you have to say relevant, person?