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How social media platforms put profits before people

The Rachman Review

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Is There a Need for External Regulators?

Face books say it is that they have invested, by which they mean they've hired some more people. But a dozen ads explicitly inciting jeniside don't somehow get caught in the net. So whatever theres investment is just clearly ain't enough. Nobody knows how these algorithms work - maybe not even the people building them. If you've got a thousand times as many people on your network, you may well need a thousand timesa many content moderators. And so self regulation will always fail.

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