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Not sure how this is going to help anything. It's just going to turn into a sort of super-dislike button for those on the opposite end of the political spectrum. They're going to get flooded with reports on "extremists" who support UBI or post photos of their hunting trips.

>>pseudo+(OP)
It gives Facebook an excuse to purge people they don't want on their platform. Without complete transparency, they can claim just about anyone was identified as an extremist by the "Facebook community" and automatically removed by an algorithm. Since it's a black box, it won't matter if it is true or not.

>>Mounta+p4
That might not be a good outcome for Facebook, depending on how many people get identified and removed.

Worse, it could be self-reinforcing. Let's suppose enough people make a claim that AOC is an extremist, and she gets removed. Then people who agree with her get claimed to be extremists. Unless the algorithm is very careful, it might remove them as extremists because they share ideas with a known extremist. Eventually all the Democrats get removed because they share both ideas and an organization with extremists. And then the neutrals and moderate Republicans get removed, because they share some ideas with known extremists.

And Facebook winds up with only 10% of its users surviving the purge. And so they wind up with only 10% of their revenue surviving the purge.