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They are a billion dollar company, do you really think they can't find people in any language they want? I highly doubt it. Arabic, Spanish, English, and Mand
by nowherebeen 5y ago
They are a billion dollar company, do you really think they can't find people in any language they want? I highly doubt it. Arabic, Spanish, English, and Mandarin cover >60% of the languages spoken on earth. The operational cost will rise substantially and hurt their bottom line.
- ginko 5y agoI'm not thinking of FB in particular here, but even they can't moderate _all_ languages. Some only have hundreds of speakers to begin with.
- jeromegv 5y agoIt's not about moderating all language, it's about SELLING ADS in all languages. If they make money from those ads, then they should have people hired to review those ads. If they can't find the people, then just don't sell ads in that market.
- wutbrodo 5y agoYea, I think the current consensus on content moderation is dangerous and detached from reality. But ads are specifically a profit center. Price them so you can have the level of basic moderation that allows you to catch ads that verbatim say "kill these people". That's absolutely the kind of thing you can do with low fixed costs + variable costs correlated to the price of the ads (eg local labor).