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How massive? Like actual Amazon delivery/warehouse workforce sized massive? Or just a small org?

I'm gonna assume the latter. And forget about 'massive', they clearly don't even want to hire enough to make it decently large.

Tech companies are fine hiring people when they can't just push the costs (social and monetary) onto others. But Facebook thinks it can - so it is.

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I haven't actually gone through the math, but my gut tells me the amount of human moderation that would make people happy, basically having a human look at every potentially bad post, is so high that Facebook wouldn't be profitable. The only company that's solved moderation at scale is Reddit. It punted the problem to unpaid moderators, so Reddit only needs to moderate the existence of subreddits, not posts.

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