Facebook claims to have disposed of more than 7 million misleading or “harmful” posts similar to COVID-19 from its company-owned social network and Instagram this quarter.
The company cited examples of articles driving “false preventive measures or exaggerated remedies that CDC and fitness experts tell us are dangerous.”
He also implemented caution labels on approximately 98 million erroneous people about COVID-19 on Facebook, the company said.
Facebook posts updates to its report on applying criteria quarterly.
Facebook admitted that COVID-19 had hampered the company’s misinformation efforts by sending many of its monitors home and that, as a result, less content can be accessed from April to June.
Some sensitive topics, such as children’s nudity, may not be accessible from home due to the delicate nature of the content and the fact that members of the family circle saw what on their screen.
“We need to make sure it’s being tested in a more controlled environment and that’s why we started bringing a small number of examiners to where he is in the office,” Guy Rosen, Facebook’s vice president of integrity, said in a call with reporters.
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Rosen added that innovations to his generation allowed him to act on more content in some spaces and increase the proactive detection rate in others.
“Our proactive hate speech detection rate on Facebook increased by 6 points, from 89% to 95%. In turn, the amount of content we acted on increased from 9.6 million in the first quarter to 22.5 million in the second quarter.”
Last week, Facebook got rid of a message from President Trump’s non-public page of a Fox News interview in which he said young people were “almost immune” to COVID-19.
This is the first time Facebook has deleted a message from the president for violating its COVID-19 disinformation policy.
The company is looking for an avalanche of hate speech of all kinds in its networks, said it is updating its policies to “take more account” of certain types of implicit hate speeches,” such as content showing a black face or stereotypes about Jews. controlling since October 2019, we have conducted 14 strategic network outages to eliminate 23 other banned organizations, most of which some of which supported white supremacy.”
Last June, Facebook got rid of a network of Facebook and Instagram accounts, computers, and pages connected to the “boogaloo” anti-government movement that encourages violence in the United States.
Social media has also designated the boogaloo as a harmful organization, giving it the same ranking as terrorist and hate groups.
Contributor: Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY
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