According to its own information, the social network removed three million terrorist contents in the third quarter
Cambridge (pte018/09.11.2018/10:30) – The largest social network Facebook says it deleted around three million terrorist content from its platform in the third quarter. According to a blog post, tools and human learning have contributed significantly to eliminating glorified contributions to IS or Al-Qaeda.
Reduced response time
“Artificial intelligence gives each Facebook post a score indicating how likely it is to violate anti-terrorism policy. This allows human reviewers to prioritize which areas need attention first,” Facebook said. Although some of the three million posts identified and deleted were old, around 2.3 million new posts were also removed.
Facebook was also able to reduce the time between a user sending a post supporting terrorism and its removal. In the past three months, it was down to around 18 hours, a significant decrease from 43 hours in the first quarter and 22 hours in the second quarter.
Further determination
“In both Q2 and Q3, we found that more than 99 percent of ISIS and Al-Qaeda content ended up being removed by ourselves before anyone in our community saw and reported it,” said Brian Fishman of Facebook. In addition, Facebook's algorithms are now able to understand around 19 different languages and intervene accordingly.
“We should not view this as a problem that can be solved and set aside – even in the most optimistic scenarios. While we can reduce the presence of terrorism on mainstream social platforms, eliminating it completely requires addressing the people and organizations that generate this material in the real world," Facebook's statement said.
Source: pte
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