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>>ilamon+(OP)
Many of us are in the tech industry. Has anyone seen this sort of thing happen? Or is this something we wouldn't be aware of since it's usually on the "content moderation" side of the house? (I haven't ever worked in social media, so not really familiar with content moderation other than removing the occasional dick pic)

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> Most of them are product managers, software developers. … They work with the policy teams with an internal set of tools to forward links and explanations about why they need to be removed.

>>octopo+6p
only one data point, but fwiw when I worked for Google I found some actively toxic youtube content w/upwards of 500k views that was telling children to off themselves, and despite using my employee back-channel connections the most I was able to get was an eventual "I'm not allowed to do anything about this" from a YouTube moderator, though it seemed to be for technical reasons (all the nasty content was in annotations, which apparently weren't wired into the moderation pipeline). There definitely wasn't a red button for me to hit as an employee to get it taken down.

>>keving+XK
That seems 4chan levels of vile.

>>Vagabu+XK1
I ended up digging around on the channel and tracked it back to some people of that type, and they had some other uploads that were basically gloating that the video was immune to moderation. It was a rip of the Undertale soundtrack, so laser-targeted at kids (if you're unfamiliar with Undertale, it's recognizable enough that one of its characters got added into one of Nintendo's games)

Sadly if the Undertale soundtrack was aggressively content ID'd/DMCA'd, that would have been a way to take it down. But that would penalize everyone who uploads footage of that game, so obviously that's not done.