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Anyone who spends a short time reading stories on news sites or social networks will be well aware of how unpleasant the experience is, which is attributed to trolls' abuse. That's why Google's anti-abuse technology team teamed up with sister company Jigsaw in 2017 to launch a publisher-centric perspective that uses machine learning to automatically detect toxic comments.

Although the program continues to expand, the latest target is the Spanish news platform, which has so far focused on empowering publishers and community managers to filter out abuses of its website. But starting today, Jigsaw, the internal incubator of Google's parent company Alphabet, will expand its product range to give netizens better control over their comments.

It's in tune.

By installing a new Chrome extension called Tune, you need to log in to your Google account through a browser, and you will be invited to control the toxicity levels you want to see on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and Disqus. You can choose as much as you want.

Click the Tune icon at the top of the browser on one of the above websites and you will see a digital volume turntable that can be rotated through a variety of filters, from "Show all" to "hide all".

Throughout the book, you will see everything: blasphemy, insults, personal attacks and others.

When the setting is lowered to the left, you can hardly see any comments.

It is worth mentioning that Tune is not really designed to be a perfect product. This is an experiment. Based on our short test, it certainly doesn't hide everything, and it's hard to find differences between settings based on the comments it displays. However, it also helps to highlight online abuse management efforts. It is impossible for human beings to finish the work alone.

In addition, not everyone has the same threshold for drug evaluation. For many people, it takes water from the back of a duck. For others, reading spam comments is a completely frustrating experience that makes them want to turn it off completely. This is why the overall thinking behind Tune is reasonable. It passes this power from publishers to readers.

Fresh ideas.

Perspective began in English more than two years ago, from the New York Times, and then extended to the Guardian, the Economist, Wikipedia, ElPas and so on. Tune and Perspective API are different products, but they have the same underlying intelligence. Although Tune is still a long way from the final product, Jigsaw says it hopes to encourage other developers to join its idea 3354. Therefore, Tune is an open source project that anyone can use on GitHub.

CJ Adams, product manager at Jigsaw, said: "Tune is based on the same machine learning models that power Perspective and allow people to set the 'volume' of conversations on many popular platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and Disqus. A blog post." We hope that Tune will inspire developers to find new ways to give readers more control, thereby adjusting the toxicity levels they see online. "

A 2017 report by the Pew Research Center found that 40% of Internet users had experienced online harassment. However, more related to Jigsaw's Tune expansion, the report found that about 1/4 of people decided not to comment online for fear of harassment, while more than 10 per cent chose not to use the site.

Of course, Alphabet doesn't want to worry about harassment infiltrating its online service, although it is eager to point out that its YouTube is not the only platform plagued by abuse. That's why it allows Tune to be used on other major social networks.

Adams added: "most of us spend more time reading online reviews than writing comments or comments." As we have read, a poisonous post can make us completely give up the discussion and miss out on reading the precious thoughts buried under the shouts. Toxicity can also have a chilling effect on conversation. If people are worried that their contributions will be drowned out by louder and louder voices, then people are less likely to participate in online discussions. "

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