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Sounds like they don't have the capability to deal with bad actors.


We know this from the congressional hearings - its hardly insightful.

Very few can handle bad actors at the scale they have to. But no they were clearly not ready. Not sure what tech company really showed success at this sort of scale. Twitter could barely stay above their toxic sludge of content, Youtube is even more full of misinformation, reddit is not free of controversial decisions - hell, even good ol' SMS and phone is a heap of robocalls and spam.


They pay $500m to Accenture to scrub the digital graffiti and hate speech off their walls.

$29bn in annual profit means they can pay a bit more.


> They pay $500m to Accenture to scrub the digital graffiti and hate speech off their walls.

They have like 40k people acting as moderators. They have teams of people to triage issues related to election interference. They have teams dedicated to tracking bot rings and foreign astro turfing.

There is still more to do, but they hardly just pay a consultancy to "scrub the digital graffiti and hate speech off their walls."




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