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Critics of Facebook contend that moderators not directly working for them allows them to have their cake and eat it.

A Nevada woman has sued ByteDance Inc. and TikTok Inc. for negligence, negligent exercise of retained control, and violations of the California Unfair

That 87% of spending is being spent on just 9% of users. and the truth is facebook is a huge company. this is not about a lack of resources in a company like facebook. why do you think theyre allocating so little attention to languages outside of english. i mean, what is the danger that poses when only 9% of users are getting 87% of the spending on this kind of fact checking? >> the simple answer is they havent been forced. they havent been held accountable, right? in germany they passed a law r...

Profitability. >> that is absolutely mind-blowing. its just staggering to think 87% of spending is being spent on just 9% of users. and the truth is facebook is a huge company. this is not about a lack of resources in a company like facebook. why do you think they are allocating so little attention to languages outside of english? i mean, what is the danger that poses with only 9% of users are getting 87% of the spending on this kind of fact-checking? >> the simple answer they is they havent bee...

Shoot the messenger. last week, we saw a facebook spokesperson gave a response to the "washington post" about a legit story. it was an on the record statement from a facebook spokesperson. over the weekend, nick clegg warned the staff saying, were going to see more, as he called them, bad headlines, and suggested this was because the media was jealous, essentially, of facebooks success. so theyre no longer engaging on these issues when were going through their own documents and research. theyre,...

That internally its impossible. >> i think its very difficult and when you have taepeams of t of thousands of peeople that ar the content moderators, and by the way, most are english speaking, theyre in the u.s. and the u.k., where most of the users of facebook and other social media are outside of the u.s. and the u.k. in different languages, you know, hundreds of different languages, different cultural contexts, its a very difficult problem, and so i think if youre able to get rid of the algor...

>> so the number that facebook likes to tell congress, tens of thousands of people we have working on this. so many of the people they have working on their most doctor their biggest issue, content moderators. theyre not actual facebook employees. theyre contractors. they are paid nowhere near as well as a facebook employee. if they wanted to bring it up to that standard, why not spend that additional money, bring more people in-house, train them up to their own standard. facebook would say this...

Financially motivated opportunity bunch, get the better of the platforms again. because they seem to bob and weave pretty quickly and effectively and the platforms seem to take a long time to either figure it out or more likely fix it. >> yeah, these people are really, really good at social media. theyre very good at internetting. because theyve been doing it a long time. so when facebook says or youtube says, were no longer going to allow anti-vaccination misinformation, all the anti-vaxers on ...

Facebooks got to be smarter than to be able to not catch that weve just changed our name. were an anti-vaxx group disguising ourself. >> we just reported my colleague ben collins and i reported on these groups that were changing their name to swim club or dinner party or dance party or changing the es in vaccines to 3s. its very common. its of the internet. people have been doing it as long as the internets existed so the fact that -- and also, i know for a fact that people have been reporting t...

Leo Varadkar told an Oireachtas committee he felt it was odd and suspicious that people would not be able to see an agreement they had signed.