Facebook reported a huge, 134% increase in the number of hate posts it removed from its primary social media platform from the first quarter to the second quarter. The company says in a new Community Standards Enforcement Report that it took action on 9.6 million hateful posts in the first quarter and 22.5 million in the second.
Facebook VP of Integrity Guy Rosen said during a media call that the main reason for the uptick is an improvement to the AI detection systems Facebook is relying on to remove hateful content. Facebook also said it’s expanded some of its automation technology to cover Spanish, Arabic, and Indonesian posts.
Something similar happened on Instagram. Facebook says its AI systems detected 84% of (known) hate speech on that service, after detecting just 45% of the hate speech in the first quarter of the year. The company says it removed 3.3 million hateful Instagram posts in the second quarter, versus just 808,900 in the first quarter. “These increases were…
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Source : fastcompany.com
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