Facebook Inc. on Thursday said it is cracking down on private groups where hate or misinformation is shared among members.
The move comes amid a wider crack down on malicious and false content at the social networking giant which has led people to turn to private groups of like-minded members who can share content that is not available to the wider Facebook community.
California based Facebook uses artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically scan posts, even in private groups, to take down pages that break its rules or in violation of the social network’s standards.
“People turn to Facebook Groups to connect with others who share their interests, but even if they decide to make a group private, they have to play by the same rules as everyone else,” Facebook vice president of engineering Tom Alison said in a blog post.
Alison said Facebook’s community standards “apply to public and private groups, and our proactive detection tools work across both.”
In the past year, Facebook has removed about 1.5 million pieces of content in groups for violating its policies on organised hate, with 91 percent of those posts found by automated software systems, according to Alison. The social network portal has taken down about 12 million pieces of content in groups for violating policies on hate speech, 87% of which was found proactively.
It is also stated that Facebook will also start “archiving” groups that been without administrators for a long time, meaning they still exist but don’t appear in searches and members can’t post anything.
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Source: Gadgets360
