Facebook put misinformation warning labels on about 50M pieces of content related to COVID-19 during the month of April, the company says
For example, of the 8.1 million items of content related to adult nudity and sexual activity that Instagram took action on in the first quarter of 2020, there were about 509,000 appeals. More than 98,000 posts were later restored.
Across the platform, about one-fifth of appeals across all categories resulted in the content being restored, the company said.organized hate groups for the first timeIn the last quarter of 2019, the company took action on 1.6 million items of content it categorized as"organized hate," rising to 4.7 million in the first three months of 2020. The increase in removals is in part because automated systems became better at finding violating content, the company said.
The report comes at a time when the company’s content moderation teams are operating at reduced capacity and it is more reliant on automated systems that use things like image matching technology to identify violating content. “We’ve spent the last few years building tools, teams and technologies to help protect elections from interference, prevent misinformation from spreading on our apps and keep people safe from harmful content,” said the company in a blog post.
“So when the COVID-19 crisis emerged, we had the tools and processes in place to move quickly and we were able to continue finding and removing content that violates our policies.”: An earlier version of this article misstated when Facebook first reported details of its appeals process. It has previously disclosed Facebook appeals data; Tuesday's report is not the first time it has done so.
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