Facebook said Thursday it has made progress in curbing hate speech and other abusive content on its platform with improved automated tools complementing its human reviewers. Releasing its transparency report for the third quarter, the social media giant said it took action against more than 70 milli...
the main opposition Congress party wrote two letters to Zuckerberg asking him to specify steps being taken to investigate allegations against its operations in India after a Wall Street Journal report said Facebook India’s head of public policy, Anhki Das, “opposed applying hate-speech rules”...
Facebook's Meta logo sign is seen at the company headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. on Oct. 28, 2021. According to a report released Thursday, June 9, 2022, Facebook and parent company Meta once again failed to detect blatant, violent hate speech in advertisements submitted to the platform...
TheWall Street Journalbegan publishing its findings from the cache under the name “The Facebook Files” in September. One reportalleging Facebook had research proving Instagram harmed teenage girlshas since led to aCongressionalhearing. Ahead of the hearing Facebook attempted to change the narrative...
Meta, one of thetech platformsthat hadplaced sanctions on Russiain the wake of the assault on Ukraine has on Thursday modified its approach to hate speech by allowing violent comments on its platforms targeted at Russian authorities. The Facebook-parent company said it would allow on its platfor...
Three years ago, the company commissioned a report that found Facebook was used to "foment division and incite offline violence" in the country. It pledged to do better and developed severaltools and policies to deal with hate speech.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the social network will be changing several content moderation policies after a number of major advertisers pledged to boycott the company. In a major reversal, Zuckerberg said the company would ban hate speech in paid advertisements on the platform and start...
Community Standards Enforcement Report Highlights Progress on Hate Speech Prevalence of hate speech on Facebook continued to decrease for the third quarter in a row. In Q2, it was 0.05%, or 5 views per 10,000 views, down from 0.05-0.06%, or 5 to 6 views per 10,000 views in Q1. ...
The latestCommunity Standards Enforcement Reportshows that Facebook's hate speech detection rate has jumped from 89 percent to 95 percent. This led to the removal of 22.5 million harmful posts, a significant increase compared to the first quarter's removal of only 9.6 million posts. Additionally,...
Despite the enormous power Facebook has to regulate the expression of their 2.2 billion users, little is known about their efforts to remove content that violatdoi:10.2139/ssrn.3232325Caitlin Ring CarlsonHayley RousselleSocial Science Electronic Publishing...