Facebook bans '2 billion fake accounts,' improving transparency

Facebook bans '2 billion false accounts,' commits to improving transparency in the future

The company's AI is getting a lot improve at proactively taking down content

Facebook is getting improve at finding and deleting hate speech, violence and graphic violence, but it still has a means to go in a number of other categories.

The social network published the third edition of its customs standards and enforcement report today, so if you want to deep dive into the stats, you can view it here.

On a press call, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took a moment at the start of the call to talk about the companies goals for the report going forward. He as well stressed the report's importance.

He mentioned that next year, the social media giant is going to publish these reports quarterly since he sees them equally just as necessary every bit the company's financial information.

Additionally, the next release will include Instagram, the other massive social network owned past Facebook.

Zuckerberg stated that the company has a responsibility to foreclose harm and keep its users safe.

The stats

Get-go off, the company is making progress in five areas – hate voice communication, fake accounts, drugs, spam and violent or graphic content.

Some interesting stats about these areas that Facebook shared say that out of x,000 posts, 11 to 14 posts contain adult nudity and sexual practice. On top of this, 25 posts out of 10,000 feature graphic violence co-ordinate to the companies data. Finally, about 5 per centum of active monthly accounts are fake.

The company constitute less bullying, child nudity, firearm sales and terrorist propaganda compared to the two previous reports, but in some cases, it isn't by much.

The company'due south artificial intelligence programs discovered a lot of rule-breaking posts in these areas and took them downwardly chop-chop earlier real users written report them. Specifically, six policy areas have a 95 pct AI takedown rate.

One of the nearly interesting things that Facebook shared in this report is how many appeals users have fabricated over taken-down content. For example, 1.i 1000000 posts that Facebook removed from its platform for hate voice communication were appealed and and so 130,000 posts were restored later the entreatment.

Source: Facebook