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by ben_w 1987 days ago
If I assume that they are operating in good faith, false positives versus false negatives. Showing the wrong advert loses you a few pennies each time, incorrectly blocking legitimate content has a power-law distribution of cost in political capital, depending on whose stuff you block.

I don’t trust FB enough to want to give them the benefit of the doubt, but this would still be true if I did.