Chennai: Facebook has said it took action against 26.9 million pieces of content for hate speech in the December 2020 quarter.
The social media giant further said the prevalence of such content on the platform declined to 7-8 views for every 10,000 content views globally.
Facebook Vice President Integrity Guy Rosen said in a blogpost, “This quarter, hate speech prevalence dropped from 0.10-0.11 per cent to 0.07-0.08 per cent, or 7 to 8 views of hate speech for every 10,000 views of content.”
According to Rosen, the prevalence of violent and graphic content also dropped from 0.07 per cent to 0.05 per cent, and adult nudity content dropped from 0.05-0.06 per cent to 0.03-0.04 per cent.
He stated that improvements in prevalence rates are mainly due to changes made to reduce problematic content in News Feed.
“Each post is ranked by processes that take into account a combination of integrity signals, such as how likely a piece of content is to violate our policies, as well as signals we receive from people, such as from surveys or actions they take on our platform like hiding or reporting posts,” he added.