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> So a human being, someone who works at Twitter dot com, looked at that video, looked back at the rule it was breaking, looked once again at the video, and went “Yeah, this all checks out.”

I am going to go out on a limb and assume that the people handling these appeals are expected to hit a certain number per day whether explicitly or not. And to paraphrase Charlie Munger, there's the incentive and this is the outcome.

I imagine someone sitting at a screen showing a queue of hundreds of thousands of posts awaiting review. Maybe there's even a leaderboard showing which employee has reviewed the most this month. Why waste their time watching the video in its entirety? Easier to just deny the appeal and move on to the next.