Interesting how "because COVID" has become the thinly veiled excuse here. A similar manifestation of the "think of the children" trope that can be used to manipulate emotions and shut down dissent.
The message says it triggered spam filters. It's not related to COVID misinformation.
The only place COVID appears is in the warning that their manual review queues are longer than normal due to COVID.
FB team can be overwhelmed with Covid related misinformation.
A lot of content moderation is outsourced to countries like India where productivity, availability may have degraded due to covid that ravaged through the country.
Many firms still have backlogs from Covid disruption.
If you have worked at / started any half-decent sized company you'd have known
I don't know if Facebook has their stuff together, but I think it's unethical to have people review random user uploaded content without close access to a mental health specialist.
You can have several degrees of intensity a reviewer might be able to see (to not expose all reviewers to the very worst on a regular basis), but no algorithm can clearly identify the nastiest of the nasty content. The algorithm sees "government pedo club", flags it as fake news, and who knows what the shared content actually contains. It could be a conspiracy nut, it could just as well be actual child porn. The probability is low, but you need someone standing by just as well, in my opinion.
No, the opposite is true: Any job that requires reviewing potentially private content must be done in a controlled environment.
I wouldn't be surprised if content reviewers weren't even allowed to have cameraphones at their desks.
Can't risk having someone snap photos of the screen while reviewing content flagged as sensitive. Doing this job from home is not an option.
We have vaccines for those that want them.
We have drugs that treat it very well.
There’s no reason to censor information or shut things down over it.