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Doesn't facebook's moderation rely upon someone flagging the content? (And stuff which is flagged gets heavily moderated.) It looks like she annoyed/offended a specific person who flagged her content - hence it was viewed by the heavy handed moderators. Her friends did not have the same reach as her - so their posts did not annoy anyone enough to flag them - so the moderators never saw their posts.

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That was my first thought as well, but later in the article they mention a different case where the person in question had friends post the flagged content and other friends flag it.

My personal guess is that Facebook moderators are not biased as a whole, but individually. So when someone flags a post, the decision depends on the biases of the specific moderator. If that's the case, the effect could be damped by having multiple moderators review everything, but that also multiplies Facebook's cost, which they probably want to avoid.

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