Think more about how memes spread in the internet - there is no “meme administration” that picks what is funny and what not.
You still have to make difference between trends of normal hashtags and evil hashtags how do you do that? Also how do you even think there would be explosion when bad actors are aware they have to hide.
Main point is simple heuristics won’t work and you don’t have to be evil mastermind to circumvent them.
> how do you do that?
I already listed a few examples. If it was unclear, the other part of the process is "have a human check the hashtag", sorry
> Also how do you even think there would be explosion when bad actors are aware they have to hide.
You'd be really amazed how much low-hanging fruit there is here. If someone is posting publicly on social media AND using hashtags, they're not exactly in the top half of OpSec
I do agree that there is a lot that can be caught with a bit more effort and that Meta does not really want to spend resources because it doesn't earn them money.
But also I argue that there still will be a lot of bad stuff and there is not enough money/resources to stop all.
> How are these bad actors coordinating hashtags in a way that can't be detected?
They manage to do it in China despite the massive censorship there. https://sg.news.yahoo.com/chinese-vpn-providers-hide-literat...
> it doesn't require a huge amount of resources
Are you suggesting that the Chinese government just isn’t trying hard enough, and if they really wanted to they could stop all dissidents in China for forever?
China would be a perfect example of my point: they've succeeded in vastly reducing the amount of censored content available, and the average person has no real desire to work around that.
I really don't get how you think your example disagrees with me - do you think China hasn't accomplished anything there?
Flipping the question around, I’m not really sure how Facebook’s current systems don’t fit your definition of “it’s not perfect but it works”?
I think there's a lot of low-hanging fruit we could easily address with a small increase in spending, and I think it's fair to shame companies for not doing that.
I also think there's a lot of mid-height fruit that could plausibly be addressed with a lot of spending. I think it's fair to praise companies that ARE doing that, but it's hardly a source of shame.
And of course, there's plenty of fruit we're never going to deal with, no matter how much we spend.
I think Facebook is under-spending and missing out on low hanging fruit
If they really have some sort of secret channel that no one else can infiltrate, why not just use that to distribute stuff directly instead of running an evil cabal of hashtags?
Surely, even given the evil cabal of hashtags, you could find a lot with simple heuristics? When you ban a tag, track which new new hash tags suddenly explode in popularity. Pull a list of hashtags with an unusually high number of links/images to sites that don't normally get linked? Track the people who follow these hashtags, and see what hashtags they go to next
If you actually want to fight the problem, it doesn't require a huge amount of resources - the problem is entirely that Meta has no actual desire to fight the problem (after all, it costs money and doesn't produce any benefit to them)