Don’t they have like an 80% gross margin?

the amount of content posted per second to facebook is unfathomable. a quick google (just for a rough order of magnitude) says ~65,000 posts per second. add in instagram (which is worse for CSAM) and its gotta be at least double that.

it would require millions on millions of employees, spread across ~every country. between the payroll, buildings and property, equipment, etc. i just dont think its possible at that scale.

(again, emphasizing that im not saying this as an excuse for facebook, but that i dont really think facebook/instagram should exist at all)

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lokar 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I would think that they can classify most posts as safe with very high accuracy.

Certainly it’s not unreasonable to have them disprove that

And the scope could be further reduced by looking at posts with more then a few views.

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gambiting 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Right, but the article isn't about posts, but about a paid ad campaign - surely those are started in numbers that could be moderated?

	▲	john_strinlai 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		>Right, but the article isn't about posts, but about a paid ad campaign the comment that started this thread says: "these technologies have proven ineffective to moderate content. User posted and otherwise" which is what i (and i assumed the parent to my comment) was replying to. i agree that paid ad campaigns alone is more tractable.
	▲	wmf 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		No, because most ads are created by automated systems (many of which are scam/spam ads) and Meta doesn't want to lose revenue by slowing the system down to human speed.

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