Facebook Pulls 22.5 Million Hate Speech Posts in Quarter
- Hate speech removal has jumped nearly 10-fold since 2018
- Facebook to undergo third party audit for content in 2021
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Facebook Inc. removed 22.5 million posts for violating the company’s policies around hate speech in the second quarter, more than double the number taken down during the first three months of the year and up from just 2.5 million posts two years ago.
The company said it now finds and eliminates about 95% of the hate speech violations using automated software systems before a user ever reports them, according to a report released Tuesday. The data show Facebook also removed 1.5 billion fake accounts in the period, and millions of posts that violated its policies around organized hate groups and terrorism.