Facebook removes millions of posts as part of its first compliance report under 2021 IT rules

On Friday, Facebook Inc. published the first edition of its Compliance Report in accordance with Rule 4 (1) (d) of the 2021 Information Technology (Interim Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Regulations. The report provides details of the actions taken on Facebook and Instagram content created by Indian users that violate the norms. Facebook has identified two metrics. This includes “Content Actioned”, which measures the number of content (posts, photos, videos, comments, etc.) that the platform has taken action to violate community standards. Shows the scale of enforcement activities. The second metric, Proactive Rate, shows the percentage of all content or accounts that the company found and flagged before the user reported it. This is an indicator of how effectively Facebook detects violations. Facebook said in its first report from May 15th to June 15th, 2021 that it took action against content that violates community standards that 10 different categories or companies call policy areas. I did. We are taking measures against 25 million spam contents with a proactive rate of 99.9%. A total of 2.5 million violent and graphic content was dealt with at a positive rate of 99.9%. Facebook said it suppressed 1.8 million adult nudity and sexual…
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