Facebook took action on 31.5 mn pieces of content for hate speech in Q2

Facebook took action against 31.5 million pieces of content for hate speech in the June 2021 quarter, and the prevalence of such content on the platform declined to 5 views for every 10,000 content views globally, the social media giant said in a report.

“We removed 31.5 million pieces of hate speech content from Facebook, compared to 25.2 million in Q1 (March quarter), and 9.8 million from Instagram, up from 6.3 million in Q1…Prevalence of hate speech on Facebook continued to decrease for the third quarter in a row,” Facebook Vice-President Integrity Guy Rosen said in a blog post.

Hate speech content removal has increased over 15X on Facebook and Instagram since Facebook first began reporting it, he added.

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