Facebook, Instagram Pulled Millions of Posts for Violations
- Social network removed 1.7 billion fake accounts last quarter
- Company took down 11.6 million posts of child exploitation
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Facebook Inc. removed tens of millions of user posts in the past six months for violating its terms of service regarding issues like child pornography, drug sales and terrorism. Millions more were removed from Instagram.
That’s according to a report released Wednesday by Facebook that details how the social media company enforces its own content policies. The report, which is published every six months and for the first time includes data from Instagram, said that Facebook identifies most of the content it removes automatically using its own software algorithms.