Is the Monitoring on Your Platform a Blend?

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The system you have first heard of managing this potential controversy. And the rules sound very clear as you describe them. Although forar lots of other platforms, particularly social media platforms and other content platforms,. as they grow, manage that content and all those things, becomes more complicated. Is the monitoring on your platform done mostly by people, by algorithm? And how, maybe, is that evolving as the platform itself is growing? It's a blend. I think i think a lot of those other platforms are probly a blend too. But ours is a blend of technology that's looking for certain phrases and words and categories and so on, and people that are looking at things. And it's

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