The spread of hate speech decreases on Facebook, in the last year it has been more than halved thanks to the advances made by the technology of the platform and the changes made to reduce problematic content in the flow of news. The company explains this in the Community Standards Report for the third quarter of 2021, an analysis that periodically shows how it has dealt with difficult content.
“We removed 13.6 million content on Facebook that violated our violence and incitement to violence policy and we proactively detected 96.7% of this content, before anyone reported it to us – says Facebook – On Instagram, We removed 3.3 million content with a proactive detection rate of 96.4%. In the fourth quarter of 2021, there were 3 hate speech views for every 10,000 content views. 0.02% “.
During the reporting period, Facebook explains that it also removed 9.2 million bullying and harassment content, with a proactive rate of 59.4%. And 7.8 million bullying and harassment content on Instagram with a proactive rate of 83.2%.
“The improper uses of our products are not always the same and neither is the way we approach our work on integrity, which is constantly evolving – concludes the company – for example, requires that integrity teams be incorporated into the product teams from Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and the teams that will build the metaverse over the next few years. ”
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