Facebook has Figures publishedwhich show how much controversial content it removed in the first quarter of 2018. In light of the spread of fake news and the increasing prevalence of inflammatory content online, the social network has come under immense pressure. This has led it to announce measures to remove posts that violate its standards.
This content can be divided into six categories: Depictions of violence, adult nudity and sexual acts, terrorist propaganda, hate speech, spam and fake accounts. Between January and March of this year, 837 million posts that contained spam were blocked by Facebook were removed, which accounts for 97 per cent of all removed content. 21 million posts containing adult nudity were also taken offline. 96 per cent of these were removed by Facebook technology found and markedbefore they were reported.
Similarly, 86 per cent of all posts containing violence were automatically detected and identified before they were reported - a total of 3.5 million posts were labelled with warnings or deleted. Facebook's technology was less successful in identifying posts containing hate speech, but 2.5 million such posts were still removed from the social network in Q1. 38 per cent of all deletions were detected by the technology. In the case of spam, the most frequently deleted content, the deactivation of fake accounts is crucial. In the first quarter of the year, 583 million fake accounts were deactivated and most of them were removed within minutes of registration.
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