On Tuesday, Facebook Inc said it had deleted 7 million posts in the second quarter for allegedly sharing false information about COVID-19.
This comes at a time that Mark Zuckerberg‘s app has been slapped with multiple suits and summons by US and UK authorities regarding their biased dashboard censorship tactics.
Facebook released the data as part of its sixth Community Standards Enforcement Report, which it introduced in 2018 along with more stringent decorum rules in response to a backlash over its lax approach to policing content on its platforms.
The company said it would invite external experts to independently audit the metrics used in the report, beginning 2021.
In Facebook’s first quarter patch, the world’s biggest social media company removed 9 million posts and 22.5 million posts containing hate speech on its flagship app in the second quarter.
It also deleted 8.7 million posts connected to extremist organizations, compared with 6.3 million in the prior period.
Facebook said it relied more heavily on automation technology( facts checkers) for reviewing content during the months of April, May and June as it had fewer reviewers at its offices due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Some U.S. politicians and public figures have caused controversies by donning blackface, a practice that dates back to 19th century minstrel shows that caricatured slaves. It has long been used to demean African-Americans.
The company said it was expanding its hate speech policy to include “content depicting blackface, or stereotypes about Jewish people controlling the world.”
The social media giant app says COVID-19 restrictions has crippled facts checking resulting to increased pieces of content related to suicide and self-injury, child nudity and sexual exploitation on its platforms.
