Meta is the 'single largest market for paedophiles', says New Mexico AG

Re:Meta is the 'single largest market for paedophiles', says... by handoflixue on Thursday February 01, 2024 @08:17AM (#39215603)

Okay, but why can't the moderators monitor this spread the same way the users do?

> 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

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Re:Meta is the 'single largest market for paedophiles', says... by ozim on Thursday February 01, 2024 @08:28AM (#39215679)

To be fair I was arguing assumptions "all can be fixed automatically" and that "all can be fixed, all bad guys can be caught".

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.

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Re:Meta is the 'single largest market for paedophiles', says... by handoflixue on Friday February 02, 2024 @04:34AM (#39226846)

I think we pretty much agree there - we're never going to wipe it all out, but I do think our current spending level is missing out on a lot of low-hanging fruit that could easily be eliminated if management cared to

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