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Last time I checked (over a year ago now) the pipeline that checked for political ads in Washington state, which Facebook is not allowed to run, remained broken

Last time I checked (over a year ago now) the pipeline that checked for political ads in Washington state, which Facebook is not allowed to run, remained broken. A lot of stuff is like this. It's probably not a question of Facebook policy directly, but of no one internally seeing any juicy line item on their performance review to justify working on it. If you want motion from Facebook, you have to make it hurt so that someone can play hero for their performance review. Germany imposed large fines for Nazi related content showing up during elections a few years ago, and the fines were large and per impression. That got dealt with.

notacoward 5y ago
> no one internally seeing any juicy line item on their performance review Pretty much. There are countless pipelines producing ad placements and feed recommendations, or flagging some kind of content. Each one might have produced a good result at one time, getting someone a good review, but that time is long gone and probably so is the person. Nobody wants to mess with it lest they trigger a loss of engagement/revenue. Safer to just keep adding more. There are thousands of people at Facebook, both data scientists and moderators, sincerely trying to fight the good fight. I respect their efforts, but there's no way they can win against a multi-billion-dollar physical manifestation of technical and organizational hubris.