Facebook’s parent company says it took action on 13.6M pieces of content that depicted or incited violence on the platform during the third quarter of the year.
The company said that Facebook’s automated systems caught more than 96 percent of violent content before it was reported by users. Meta’s report also said that violent content constituted 0.04 percent of content viewed on Facebook. The latest report covers June through August.
“This is our 11th report, which shares more data and information than any of our peers in the industry,” Guy Rosen, Facebook’s vice president for integrity, said during a call with reporters.” content on Facebook, saying that it accounted for around 0.14 percent of content viewed during the third quarter.
Meta officials said that the company’s algorithmic-based internal tools to find bullying content before users do have improved over the last two years. Additionally, Meta has also continued to work against militia-related and QAnon-related material on Facebook since August 2020, and it provided new figures related to such content for the first time since January.that to date the company removed nearly 55,000 “militarized social movement” profiles, which represents more than double the number that the company released 10 months ago.
Similarly, it has removed over 50,000 QAnon-related profiles, a figure nearly triple the size of the 18,300 figure released in January.
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