Meta Removes 795,000 Posts After EU Rebuke on Hamas Content
- Misinformation is proliferating across Facebook, TikTok, X
- 795,000 pieces of content were removed since Oct. 7 attack
Meta said it’s also lowering the threshold at which its technology will step in to avoid recommending violating content and is reducing the visibility of potentially offensive comments under posts on Facebook and Instagram.
Photographer: Tiffany Hagler-Geard/BloombergMeta Platforms Inc. has removed or marked more than 795,000 pieces of disturbing content for violating their policies in Arabic and Hebrew after it was rebuked by the European Union for not doing enough to tackle disinformation on its platforms.
The company said it’s working with fact checkers who speak Hebrew and Arabic, blocking certain hashtags and taking other measures after European Commissioner Thierry Breton warned Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg and other social media leaders that their platforms were responsible for a surge of illegal content regarding the Israel-Hamas war.