Is Facebook Doing Enough to Stop Bad Content? You Be the Judge

Pocket-sized doses of nudity and graphic violence withal make their manner onto Facebook, even every bit the company is getting better at detecting some objectionable content, according to a new report.

Facebook today revealed for the first time how much sex activity, violence and terrorist, propaganda has infiltrated the platform—and whether the company has successfully taken the content down.

"It's an endeavor to open about how Facebook is doing at removing bad content from our site, so you can be the judge," VP Alex Schultz wrote in a blog postal service.

The report looks at Facebook's enforcement efforts from Q4 2022 and Q1 2022, and shows an uptick in the prevalence of nudity and graphic violence on the platform. Even so, bad content was relatively rare. For instance, nudity only received seven to 9 views for every 10,000 content views.

The prevalence of graphic violence was college and received 22 to 27 views—an increase from the previous quarter that suggests more than Facebook users are sharing violent content on the platform, the company said.

Graphic Violence Facebook

Facebook uses computer algorithms and content moderators to grab problematic posts earlier they can attract views. During Q1, the social network flagged 96 percent of all nudity before users reported it.

Even so, the enforcement data from Facebook isn't consummate. It refrained from showing how prevalent terrorist propaganda and hate speech is on the platform, proverb it couldn't reliably estimate either.

Facebook Content Take Downs

Yet, the company took down almost twice equally much content in both segments during this year'southward commencement quarter, compared with Q4. But the study also indicates Facebook is having problem detecting detest speech, and only becomes aware of a bulk of it when users study the problem.

"We have lots of work nevertheless to do to forbid corruption," Facebook VP Guy Rosen wrote in a split up post. The company'southward internal "detection technology" has been efficient at taking down spam and fake accounts, removing them past the hundreds of millions during Q1. However for detest oral communication, Rosen said, "our technology still doesn't piece of work that well."

The company has been using artificial intelligence to assist pinpoint the bad content, but Rosen said the technology even so struggles to understand the context around a Facebook post pushing hate, and ane just recounting a personal experience.

Facebook Hate Speech takedown

Facebook plans to continue publishing new enforcement reports, and will refine its methodology on measuring which bad content circulates over the platform. However, the data should also exist taken with a grain of salt. I potential flaw is that the data doesn't account for any bad content the company may take missed. This is a problem perhaps almost salient in non-English speaking countries.

Final month Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced criticism from ceremonious lodge groups in Myanmar over how his company failed to discover violent letters from spreading across Facebook Messenger. To address the complaints, Facebook is adding more than Burmese language reviewers to its content moderation efforts.