This is a harrowing mic drop on the same "up is down" thought. Imagine if we took on incel / MRA threats with the same seriousness we did "terrorism," because yes, that's what it is. https://twitter.com/laura_hudson/status/989255319808176128 …
The problem is 1) what they believe is and is not harrassment in those evaluations and 2) the ability to believe they can create algorithms that do the job of basic human decency. Both those issues are horrendous.
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And after a damn decade, they are just NOW beginning to realize how to engage it, and it starts with caring in the first place. The horrible part is that it's never really been that hard.
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So let's pretend only 1% of comments are flagged. So 500,000 flagged comments/day. If a moderator reviews 40 comments/hour in an 8 hour shift, they'd still need 1560 fulltime employees. If each make $45,000/year, that's $70million/year on salaries alone!
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