Facebook says it removed 22.5M posts for violating hate speech policies in Q2, up 2x from Q1, and that 95% of the violations were caught using automated systems
Facebook took down 22.5 million posts for “hate speech” from April-June. That's nearly 10x the 2.5 million it took down in that same quarter in 2018. (Context: FB advertisers boycotted the service last month, saying it didn't do enough about hate speech) https://www.bloomberg.com…
@edcauchi
Erin D. Cauchi on x
Really interesting to watch social media companies like Facebook evolve into a sort of new age government of internet society, starting to learn the #1 lesson I hear from career civil servants: that you can't succeed without public trust https://about.fb.com/...
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Emil Protalinski on x
A 95% detection rate sounds great. But, it doesn't tell us: - How much proactively detected hate speech was disputed - How much was reinstated for being incorrectly detected - How much was never detected, never manually reported, and thus never removed https://venturebeat.com/...
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Issie Lapowsky on x
I know the uptick in hate speech removals is getting a lot of attention, but look what happened to suicidal content on Instagram: from 1.3 million pieces of content removed in Q1 to 275k in Q2 when so many are losing their jobs and lives to COVID-19 https://www.protocol.com/...
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Issie Lapowsky on x
Similar for child sexual abuse material. @MissingKids has said they're seeing a surge of tips about CSAM, and yet, on Insta, removals fell by more than half. On Facebook, they were slightly up from last quarter, but significantly down from the end of 2019 https://www.protocol.com…
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Mike Schroepfer on x
Today's Facebook Community Standards Enforcement Report details the impact of sending our content reviewers home as a result of COVID-19, and how our AI tools are finding and removing content that violates our policies. More here: https://about.fb.com/...
@jeffstone500
Jeff Stone on x
Nine of Facebook's 14 network takedowns in the past quarter were against “hate and/or white supremacist groups.” That includes the KKK, the Proud Boys, Atomwaffen and Blood & Honour, an avowed neo-Nazi group associated with skinhead music. https://about.fb.com/...
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Guy Rosen on x
Today we released our 6th Community Standards Enforcement Report, and first quarterly report, covering April - June 2020. https://about.fb.com/... (1/11)
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Steve Herman on x
In 2Q20, @Facebook removed 7 million posts for sharing false information about the #coronavirus, including content that promoted fake preventative measures and exaggerated cures. https://about.fb.com/...
@hypervisible
Doomscrolling Eternal on x
“The company spent so much time looking for glass in the food, they had to overlook all the rat feces.” 😵 https://twitter.com/...
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Doomscrolling Eternal on x
“That's up from 88.8% in the previous quarter, 80.2% in Q4 2019, and 0% as recently as four years ago.” 🤔🙄😭 https://venturebeat.com/...
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@instagramcomms on x
Today we released our latest Community Standards Enforcement Report, which demonstrates how we're doing when it comes to keeping harmful content off Instagram. Learn more 👇 https://twitter.com/...
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WJC on x
(1/3) In a positive step, Facebook announced that it will be tightening up its community guidelines to ban the spread of hateful stereotypes that target the Black and Jewish communities. https://about.fb.com/...