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Re:Facebook's Response to Drug Cartels and Human Traffickers... by mandevil on Thursday September 16, 2021 @02:26PM (#28555283)
"In 2020, Facebook employees and contractors spent more than 3.2 million hours searching out and labeling or, in some cases, taking down information the company concluded was false or misleading, the documents show. Only 13% of those hours were spent working on content from outside the U.S."

Our goal is to connect the whole world, and we sure as hell love their MAU and engagement, but we won't bother to try and keep cartels from posting their executions on our site, because ...

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Re:Facebook's Response to Drug Cartels and Human Traffickers... by nradov on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:35PM (#28556290)
Resources are allocated based on expected value. US users are more valuable to advertisers, so naturally they get more attention.
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Re:Facebook's Response to Drug Cartels and Human Traffickers... by Gunax on Thursday September 16, 2021 @07:13PM (#28559001)
I actually think the quote exonerates facebook. 3 million hours per year is a lot.

There's always going to be something objectionable, even if we could agree on what constitutes objectionable. Facebook is getting pulled in different directions by pearl clutchers, governments, and libertarians.

It's one of those issues that's easy to throw stones at but the problem space is too large and fraught with conflicting interests.

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Re:Facebook's Response to Drug Cartels and Human Traffickers... by mikeyla85 on Friday September 17, 2021 @03:01AM (#28562149)
Facebook could stop trying to grow as quickly as possible. They are clearly trying, and they are clearly failing. That doesn't exonerate them, it highlights a problem that must be solved for global safety.
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