Facebook released new figures about its attempts to stop the spread of videos after a shooter livestreamed his attacks on two Christchurch, New Zealand mosques last Friday, killing 50 people. In a blog post, Facebook vice president and deputy general counsel Chris Sonderby said that the video was viewed less than 200 times during the […]
View More Facebook says the original New Zealand shooter video was viewed about 4,000 times before removalCategory: moderation
A new ‘Hide Tweet’ button has been spotted in Twitter’s code
Twitter confirmed it has in development a new “Hide Tweet” option, but has yet to provide more detail about its plans for the feature. The new option, spotted in Twitter’s code, is available from a list of moderation choices that appear when you click the “Share” button on a tweet – a button whose icon […]
View More A new ‘Hide Tweet’ button has been spotted in Twitter’s codeFacebook says it removed 8.7M child exploitation posts with new machine learning tech
Facebook announced today that it has removed 8.7 million pieces of content last quarter that violated its rules against child exploitation, thanks to new technology. The new AI and machine learning tech, which was developed and implemented over the past year by the company, removed 99 percent of those posts before anyone reported them, said […]
View More Facebook says it removed 8.7M child exploitation posts with new machine learning techFacebook pulls post by Anne Frank Center after seeing only nudity in a photo of the Holocaust
Facebook moderators temporarily removed a post by the Anne Frank Center which was seeking to raise awareness about the Holocaust, after the company was unable to distinguish between historical genocide and child nudity. The post included an archive photograph of Jewish children who had been stripped and starved by Nazi Germany. Between 1941 and 1945 the German […]
View More Facebook pulls post by Anne Frank Center after seeing only nudity in a photo of the HolocaustUndercover report shows the Facebook moderation sausage being made
An undercover reporter with the UK’s Channel 4 visited a content moderation outsourcing firm in Dublin and came away rather discouraged at what they saw: queues of flagged content waiting, videos of kids fighting staying online, orders from above not to take action on underage users. It sounds bad, but the truth is there are pretty good reasons for most of it and in the end the report comes off as rather naive.
View More Undercover report shows the Facebook moderation sausage being made