OTOH, I've reported posts and had them take them down within the hour...

The issue seems to be that some posts are reviewed by Facebook staff in America, and others by Facebook staff in India. The American staff acts quickly and is very good about taking violations down. The Indian staff seems to be very laissez faire, due to the different cultural standards for content.

Are you notified of the location of the reviewer?

No, but it's pretty easy to tell based on the response they provide. In a nutshell, they write the same way as my cousins (back in India) do, rather than the way Americans do.

If a person sees it at all. Twitter and Facebook are far too large to moderate effectively with humans. Most things are caught by automated image recognition, but that doesn't work for images not yet in the database.

After 3 or 4 of these rejections I stopped reporting.

I'm sure a lot gets caught, but the amount that slips through is just unacceptable. Fortunately I haven't come across the kind of content you describe, but I reported ISIS propaganda on Twitter and was told it didn't break the rules. Shortly after complaining publicly and tagging @jack the tweet was removed. Could be a coincidence, I'll never know.

And yet, in the ancient times when I had a Facebook and Instagram profile for my photography hobby[1], I would wake up every day to new removed images for showing "too much skin."

[1] Nude art photography, with private parts covered with white stripes or simply not being shown at all.

Same on reddit.

That's not true. FB has many US moderators, many outsourced to other companies.

I think the odds of US moderators being any sort of majority or anything close to that is slim to zero. The savings are astronomical and is the same reason customer support of all kinds, even IT help, is outsourced. US mods are most likely a minority and a face.

Do you have any sources for those claims?

Why say this? You’re making things up and you happen to be wrong.

I would assume content moderation makes Twitter absolutely nothing and actually just bleeds tens of millions of dollars annually.

They'd do their best to outsource the work somewhere that's super cheap (India, etc.) or they'd bring in international talent on H1B visas en-masse since I believe a not insignificant amount of their wages are subsidized by government.

You can’t bring H1-Bs in for content moderation.

Economics always prevails and that is on the side of my argument. Its also industry standard. Do you have a source for me being wrong?

I'm not saying you're wrong here, but the burden of proof is typically on the person making the claim...

Yeah, it’s not hard to find. Since you literally made it up and just assumed you’re correct with no basis, I will leave the research as an exercise you can pursue. FB has thousands of people in the US doing it.

If the user is wrong, please substantiate your accusation. As far as I know, they are absolutely right. If they're not right, where is your source?

>That's not true. FB has many US moderators

Who also have terrible jobs, and impossible work queues.

India has a very low cost of living. Getting paid an average wage for the country you live in is not “slave” labor. If you use that term freely for things it doesn’t apply to, people stop taking it as seriously.

Thats understandable, what you considered disgusting may not be conisdered disgusting by other people.

Well, those people with a different (lesser) definition of disgusting w.r.t. children are called pedophiles and they are bad.