Instagram and Facebook ramp up fight against bullies and racists
By Sameer Naik
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Social media giants Facebook and Instagram have announced that they are ramping up efforts to ensure their platforms are kept more safe and inclusive.
The social media platforms said this week that they have put in place more preventative measures and plan to take action on all content that goes against their community standards, which includes harassment and bullying, organised hate, hate speech, suicide and self injury on their platforms.
Instagram was forced to relook at their community standards policy recently as bullying and harassing continued to spike on the application.
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February 17, 2021 13:55 IST
The company said its multilingual systems helped moderate content in several languages including Arabic and Spanish, targeting nearly 27 million piece of hateful content last quarter.
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Facebook also said last year it will undertake an independent audit third-party audit of content moderation systems to validate the numbers it publishes.
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The company said its multilingual systems helped moderate content in several languages including Arabic and Spanish, targeting nearly 27 million piece of hateful content last quarter.
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