Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

Ah, apparently she has quite a lot of experience telling the masses just how stupid their betters think they are.

Perfect situation for Occam's razor. Its not some conspiracy, just overwhelmed, under-enabled low-level staff with poorly engineered flagging software.https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63/status/1319724206326767617 …

What explanation could there possibly be for not having an ID verification process for accounts flagged as potentially run by an imposter? All of online finance requires this. I personally bootstrapped a product with this functionality >5 years ago while living on ramen.

The justification is: 1) Facebook does not (primarily) provide financial services, 2) "what explanation could there be for not having [feature x]" is a fully general gotcha that needs to be justified with respect to both cost & benefit.

I'm not saying this feature isn't worthy, but it's not so obviously true that it doesn't deserve justification (rather than the reverse!).

You literally just need functionality for uploading identification documents, which Facebook obviously already has. The idea that you can perform any kind of objective review of an "imposter" account without giving the user an opportunity to provide ID is insane on its face.

Reasonable - slipped my mind that they already have functionality for that (for some other feature). Most likely explanation is "big company syndrome" with siloed domains of responsibility (or lack of ownership). Not a good excuse, but very ordinary levels of incompetence.