Facebook released the new Community Standards Application Report relating to the second quarter of 2021 (i.e. the months of April, May and June): this is a document, now in its tenth edition, which provides information on how the company applies the rules on its apps.
Much of the work went into managing the verbal violence and how posts containing it are positioned in people’s News Feed: “The removal of these posts has increased more than 15 times on Facebook and Instagram, since we started recording this data – reads the report – proactivity, i.e. the percentage of content on which we have acted and that we have identified before anyone reported them, is higher than 90% for 12 of the 13 policy areas considered for Facebook and 9 out of 11 for Instagram “.
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Regarding particularly sensitive contents, they cannot be excluded those with the Covid-19 theme: “Globally, we have removed more than 20 million content from Facebook and Instagram that violated our coronavirus-related disinformation policies. In addition, more than 3 thousand accounts deleted, pages and groups that have repeatedly violated the rules against the spread of fake news, including vaccines. “In general, there are about 190 million contents relating to the pandemic on which the social network has sent warnings, because they have been evaluated as false by the independent partners involved in fact checking, or partially false, manipulated or without context.
When a content is considered not entirely reliable, a label is added to its side, so that people are more aware of what they share: “We have provided authoritative information to help improve consensus on vaccines, on Facebook and Instagram – explained the company – Today we know that, based on research, people are more likely to get vaccinated if they see others in their community they do. “
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