Facebook reports a spike in terrorism, hate speech takedowns

Facebook reports a spike in terrorism, hate speech takedowns

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https://www.siliconvalley.com/2020/05/12/facebook-reports-a-spike-in-terrorism-hate-speech-takedowns/

SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook Inc on Tuesday reported a sharp increase in the number of posts it removed for promoting violence and hate speech across its apps, which it attributed to improvements made to its technology for automatically identifying text and images.

The world’s biggest social media company removed about 4.7 million posts connected to organized hate organizations on its flagship Facebook app in the first quarter of 2020, up from 1.6 million pieces of content in the previous quarter.