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by shagie 1307 days ago
It's a mostly human process, and the humans that pay money are the ones most likely to be heard first.

Many social media systems experimented with a purely automated system and had difficulty with automated systems that likewise reported everything that they didn't like and that resulted in the content creators getting banned for non-reasons.

This leads to needing to having a human check things - and humans don't scale.

Look at the stories of Youtube content moderation - both the humans involved and the false positives from when humans aren't involved - for examples of "why we can't have nice things."