Social media giant Facebook announced that more than 22.5 million posts violated its anti-hate speech rule in the last quarter had been scrapped.
This number is more than double the number in the first quarter of 2020. That’s also more than 4 times the number of posts cut in it in 2019.
READ ALSO: Facebook Troll Farm Posing as Black Trump’s Support
Facebook’s other popular sharing site, Instagram, has also noticed an increase in the elimination of hate speech violations. More than 3.3 million positions were eliminated at the time of the quarter, at 800,000 in the last quarter.
The published Corporate Community Standards Report defines hate speech.
“We describe hate speech as violent or dehumanizing discourse, statements of inferiority, called to exclusion or segregation on the basis of characteristics or insults. These characteristics come with race, ethnicity, national origin, devoted affiliation, sexual orientation, caste, gender, gender. , gender identity and a disability or serious illness”.
The company says that “it gives other people the opportunity to appeal our decisions, in cases where security is extreme. We repair content that we have improperly disposed of or when instances change, either on appeal or when we identify the disorders ourselves.
Last June, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced new policies that would block a “broader category of hateful content.”
He added categories like: mocking the concept, occasions or victims of hate crimes, even if no genuine user is represented in an image. Designated comparisons, generalizations or statements of dehumanizing behavior. It now also blocks generalizations that affirm inferiority (in written or visual form).
READ ALSO: Twitter and Facebook censor Trump accounts for incorrect information about coronavirus
The new protocols largely increase.
“The upgrade has been done on a giant component through higher proactive detection in the generation we’re working on,” Guy Rosen, Facebook’s vice president of integrity, told reporters.
The settings have been very close. In July, the civil rights crusade #StopHateForProfit suggested corporations avoid paying for Facebook-rated ads to protest against the platform’s remedy against hate speech and misinformation. More than 1,000 corporations participated.
Are you subscribed to the New TheGrio podcast “Dear Culture”? Download our episodes now!