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20 million reviews per year * 1/(2000 hours per personyear * 10 reviews per personhour) = 1000 people

Facebook could afford a thousand fulltime account reviewers, they just don't want to.

You're implicitly assuming that manual reviews would have a 1% or better error rate. I sincerely doubt that's realistic based on what I've seen of assembly line style processes.

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