Re:Facebook Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them
by rossdavidh on Saturday January 23, 2021 @03:56PM
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I would shed no tears if FB profits went down, but...I think you're underestimating how big they are. Two BILLION users, in ~100 countries (each with its own standards on what is acceptable, legal, repulsive, etc.). If you had one moderator per 100 users, that would 20 million moderators. I don't think they could hire 20 million high quality moderators (there's only one dang, and we're not giving him up), and certainly not with 18.5 billion.
Oh hell no they aren't too big, they just don't want to reduce their profits from the current 18.5 billion US $ (per https://www.statista.com/statistics/277229/facebooks-annual-...).
If Facebook wanted, they could massively ramp up staffing, hire them themselves, and pay them a livable wage instead of outsourcing the cost that their business occurs on society (who has to pick up the slack from conspiracy myths, fascism and other shit), on the users who are mistakenly banned and lose their primary contact e.g. to overseas family, and on the moderation staff that is hired via third parties and exploited.