During the first three months of 2018 Facebook pulled or attached warnings to nearly 30 million posts. This affected posts with sexual or violent images terrorist propaganda and hate speech. Within the past year Facebook disabled 1 billion fake accounts.
Facebook took action against 2.5 million pieces of hate speech content during the first three months of this year. That is a 56 increase over October-December. Over the last two months on average they
deleted around 66000 posts reported as hate speech per week.
How does the company decide what to pull? What criteria do they use? Conservatives feel a growing concern that Facebooks standards are unfair and wrongly enforced. The companys run by those on the left. Most of its employees are on the left. Some evidence suggests that the company censors right-leaning and Christian content.
Now We Know Maybe
Now Facebook has told us. Kind of. The company published
25 pages outlining what its standards are for taking down inappropriate material. Facebook also issued an 81-page
Community Standards Enforcement Report" detailing recent actions taken.
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