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>What's weird is that Facebook cannot rely on their users to report blatantly criminal acts witnessed by thousands of people...and makes me doubt that doubling this or that team size can make a meaningful difference.

Then wouldn't it make sense to add more people whose job specifically is to report criminal acts instead of relying on the users to do it?

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Are the reviewers going to browse random content? Somewhat possible with trend detection (make a human look at quickly rising stuff) but very wasteful since most of that will be either benign or incomprehensible to the outsider.

Will they watch private streams and read private messages? That sounds like a privacy disaster even Facebook would prefer to avoid.

Which leaves them with reports from users. Basically, reviewing millions of "hate speech" reports and either effectively instituting a very strict speech code or ignoring vast majority of them leading to further complaints.

Maybe I'm missing something but I don't quite see the point of rebutting issues you raise through your own speculation.

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