On the Italian afternoon yesterday, Wednesday 13 October, Facebook has announced that it has tightened its rules against bullying and intimidation, introducing new rules to increase the protection of people from mass harassment and strengthen the protection of public figures.
The news came on the occasion of the National Day for the Prevention and Awareness of Bullying in the United States: as explained in a post by Antigone Davis, head of security within Facebook, the coordinated actions of mass harassment that target individuals at greater risk of offline harm, such as victims of tragedies or government dissidents, even if the content alone does not violate our policies “; content deemed” objectionable “will be deleted on profiles and in direct messages.
Regarding public figures, such as politicians, journalists, celebrities or creators, sexual content aimed at these people will be removed, in addition to retouched and derogatory images, attacks through negative physical descriptions also made through i tag on the public figure’s account and other degrading content: “Becoming a public figure is not always a choice – explained Davis – and this fame can increase the risk of bullying and harassment, particularly if the person comes from an underrepresented community, including women, people of color or the LGBTQ community“; Facebook has indicated that in updating these regulations it has worked with experts including advocates of free speech and women’s safety groups, content creators and public figures and that” it will continue to work with experts and listen to members community to ensure our platforms remain secure. “
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TikTok removed 81 million videos
On the same topics, TikTok has made public the Report on the application of the Guidelines for the second quarter of 2021, with detailed information on the quantity and nature of the contents and accounts removed following violations, April to June: the platform removed over 81 million videos who violated the rules, which is a huge number, but represents less than 1% of the total content posted in 3 months.
Of these, 93% were removed within 24 hours of publication, 94.1% before receiving any reports, 87.5% without receiving even a view, an improvement on the previous report, which marked a percentage of 81.8%.
During the reference quarter, over 8.1 billion videos were published on TikTok, with an average of about 90 million per day: since July, as we explained on Italian Tech, TikTok uses automatic recognition technology of the contents that remove, in a preventive measure and without human intervention, the videos deemed to be harmful to the terms of the service, that is, that present nudity, sexual activity, violent or illegal acts; the dedicated teams can then intervene to validate the intervention. The social media claimed that the false positive rate, i.e. the removal of footage that does not actually violate the rules, would be 5%, a percentage that is reflected in the recent transparency report, as about 4.6 million of the 81 million removed videos were then restored.
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In the second quarter, TikTok also debuted functions to delete or report multiple comments and accounts that use bullying expressions, while the campagna #CreateKindness aims to raise awareness on the issue of online bullying, with dedicated videos.
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