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Design a Political Advertising Safeguard System System Design Interview

Design a system to detect and prevent political advertisements from unauthorized foreign actors from appearing on a social media platform.

Mock Interview with AI

1. Problem Statement

Design a system for a social media platform that screens political advertisements and prevents those associated with unauthorized foreign actors from being published. How would you approach this?

2. Architecture Discussion Map

Use this as one discussion aid, not a single correct answer. Your design should follow from the requirements, scale, and trade-offs you establish.

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Mermaid Source (For AI Bots)

graph LR
    A["Design a Political Advertising Safeguard System"]
    A --> F1["Ad submission and pre-flight screening pipeline"]
    A --> F2["Classifier signals content, advertiser identity, payment origin"]
    A --> F3["Human review queue and escalation"]
    A --> F4["Audit log and regulatory reporting"]
    A --> F5["Appeal and false-positive remediation"]
    A --> F6["Tradeoffs - precision vs recall; cost of false positives vs false negatives"]

3. Key Focus Areas

1
Ad submission and pre-flight screening pipeline
2
Classifier signals (content, advertiser identity, payment origin)
3
Human review queue and escalation
4
Audit log and regulatory reporting
5
Appeal and false-positive remediation
6
Tradeoffs: precision vs recall; cost of false positives vs false negatives

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Core Concepts

System DesignSafety and ComplianceMachine Learning PipelineHuman Review