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Hpw do you run ads for child abuse?
OK...
How did we get here?
That's what they said would happen...
How bad is it?
The videos promote child abuse and invite you to join a Telegram group to have access to it. So, that's bad, and also sounds like a honeypot.
I want to be clear I’m not promoting Meta’s decision here by any stretch.
There is an interesting problem with human moderators though. Once the entire population of Earth is posting on social media, are there enough humans to ever moderate it? You might say oh sure, because the average person might only post occasionally and human moderators could be dedicated full time so they’d outweigh users by factors. But that kind of ignores influencers who also generate content full time.
I really don’t see how there will ever be enough humans to do this right. Or if there are, they will have to number in the hundreds of millions to keep up. The bit about all humans posting is not really hyperbolic at all. Zuckerberg already has 1 billion of us.
It’s absolutely possible to moderate. But doing so would require more payroll than the tech companies are willing to spend. So instead, they simply let CSAM ads run rampant.
What would 200 million moderators cost? At a modest salary of $50k annually it’s in the trillions. They literally couldn’t pay that.
Also, exposing the moderators to extreme content like this is traumatizing.
Yes it’s a thing with more than one challenge.