Pavel Durov has been compelled to remain in France, where he's under investigation for alleged complicity in criminal activity on his popular platform. 'I got interviewed by police for 4 days,' he posted on his channel. 'No innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for potential abuse of those tools.' Like so many other aspects of our increasingly automated existence, humans still play a central role. Office cubicles filled with contractors staring at screens and making snap decisions on content may have given way to artificial intelligence and machine learning, but frequently overworked and underappreciated people remain an essential last line of defense. Patience with the current way of doing things is waning, however, according to Institute for Strategic Dialogue CEO Sasha Havlicek. 'You have consistent, systemic failures in content moderation across the platforms,' she said. In many ways it's a neglected backstop for businesses...
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