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gruez on Dec 22, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after ...

>In other words, they would prefer that as many legitimate posts are published as possible.

They'd prefer that as many posts are published, but they probably also don't mind some posts being removed if it meant saving a buck. When canada and australia implemented a "link tax", they were happy to ban all news content to avoid paying it.

sd9 on Dec 22, 2024 [–]

Yes, Meta are economically incentivised to reduce the number of human reviews (assuming the cost of improving the model is worthwhile).

This probably means fewer human reviewers reviewing a firehose, not the same number of human reviewers reviewing content at a slower rate.

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