Pushing “freedom of expression” in Meta leads to a much lower content divisions

She declared dead in January It will end Some efforts to baptize content, reduce their bases, and focus more on supporting “freedom of expression”. The transformations resulted in removing fewer posts from Facebook and Instagram, the company Detected Thursday in a report enforcement of the quarterly community standards. Mita said that Its new policies It helped reduce the removal of wrong content in the United States by half without exposing users widely to more offensive content by changes.

New a reportWhich was referred to in an update to a blog publication in January by the head of global affairs, Meta Global Joel Kaplan, it appears that Meta removed nearly a third of the content on Facebook and Instagram worldwide to violate its bases from January to March this year than it was in the previous quarter, or about 1.6 billion elements compared to less than 2.4 billion, according to an analysis through the swing. In the past many quarters, the total number of quarterly removal operations of the technology giant had risen or remained flat.

Via Instagram and Facebook, Meta reported that about 50 percent of the posts violating the rules of random mail, almost 36 percent less than children are at risk, and about 29 percent of almost hateful behavior. The removal processes in the category of only one major bases-the content of revenge and the content of self-harm-have increased among 11 definition lists.

The Meta amount of content regularly turns from a quarter to a quarter, and a number of factors could have contributed to the decrease in removal. However, the company itself confessed that “the changes made to reduce enforcement errors” were one of the reasons for the significant decline.

The company wrote: “Through a group of policy areas, we have witnessed a decrease in the amount of content that a decrease in the percentage of the content that we took action before the user reached that.” “This was partially due to the changes we made to ensure that we are making less mistakes. We also saw a decrease in the amount of dissolved content and ultimately restored.”

Meta relaxed some of her content rules at the beginning of the year that CEO Mark Zuckerberg described as “far -reaching with the prevailing speech.” Changes allowed Instagram and Facebook users Employ some language Activists in the field of human rights look at hateful towards immigrants or individuals who know that they are transgender. For example, Meta now allows “allegations of mental illness or anomalies when they are based on sex or sexual orientation.”

As part of the comprehensive changes, which have been announced just as Donald Trump was appointed to start his second term as an American president, Meta also stopped relying on automated tools to identify and remove suspected posts in less intense violations of their rules because they said they have high error rates, which raised frustration with users.

During the first quarter of this year, META systems accounted for 97.4 percent of the Instagram content under the company’s hate policies, with only one percentage point from the end of last year. (User’s reports to Meta sparked the remaining percentage.) But the mechanical removal of bullying and harassment on Facebook has decreased by approximately 12 degrees Celsius. In some groups, such as nudity, Meta systems were slightly more active compared to the previous quarter.