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"Oops the algorithm did it" cannot be an excuse for everything. Oh the algorithm did it? Then hold the people who developed/pushed for it responsible then.

Oh it's hard to make algorithms that don't make terrible decisions? Maybe then you should remove those algorithms and, say, have an ad review team.

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Isn't approximately half of the Facebook workforce doing manual content moderation already? I was under the impression that it's an enormous time suck and morale killer that lets a ton of awful stuff through, hence the desire for automated solutions.

In which case there is something fundamentally wrong with the platform.

If they’re producing more diarrhoea than they can shovel, maybe they should go easy on the laxatives.

> In which case there is something fundamentally wrong with the platform.

This is my take as well.

Not every business/platform has a right to exist, and if something is fatally flawed in this manner, don't let it keep crawling along, kill it.

Even if that were the case (it does not seem to be), that would probably still be too little vs the number of users.

https://onezero.medium.com/facebook-is-too-big-to-moderate-9...

In that case FB doesn't have enough workforce. If it's impossible to have enough workforce then scale down FB. It's not heating or water, if it goes away tomorrow as a Christmas present we can easily do without it as we always did. Actually we'll be better off IMHO.

"Break up FB" still doesn't directly fix the problem. Breaking up FB would be a punishment but not actually a fix for the problem.

False negatives and positives are just a reality that every content moderation system is going to have.

How does bad algorithms relate to size?

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