Comment Comment by lacker To me, the key part of this article comes about 100 paragraphs in. Describing the situation in 2014:Facebook has a single Burmese-speaking moderator—a contractor based in Dublin—to review everything that comes in.Burmese is the 43rd most popular language in the world, so perhaps it isn't surprising that Facebook was having trouble recruiting moderators.http://www2.harpercollege.edu/mhealy/g101ilec/intro/clt/cltc...It's a sad story. As much as I like "free speech" to be the answer, this is a pretty chilling downstream result of a platform not being able to do heavy human moderation. parent lacker 3 years ago
Facebook has a single Burmese-speaking moderator—a contractor based in Dublin—to review everything that comes in.
Burmese is the 43rd most popular language in the world, so perhaps it isn't surprising that Facebook was having trouble recruiting moderators.
http://www2.harpercollege.edu/mhealy/g101ilec/intro/clt/cltc...
It's a sad story. As much as I like "free speech" to be the answer, this is a pretty chilling downstream result of a platform not being able to do heavy human moderation.