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Facebook and other online platforms have been trying to minimise hate speech on social media, by getting content moderated.

Why India needs to be the centre for content moderation reform

A significant number of moderators for most platforms are contracted through companies such as Cognizant, Genpact, and...

16 May 2020 3:10 PM IST

In a 2018 lawsuit, third-party contractors for the company said that Facebook failed to properly protect them against severe psychological and other injuries that can result from repeated exposure to graphic material such as child sexual abuse, beheadings, terrorism, animal cruelty and other disturbing images.

Moderators who sued Facebook for mental distress from watching graphic...

The settlement grants US moderators who were part of the class action lawsuit USD 1,000 each totalling USD 52 million.

13 May 2020 8:41 PM IST

$A protester holds up a sign that reads \No chance for (Bill) Gates - no forced vaccination\, which propagates a conspiracy theory that COVID-19 is man-made and being spread by flu shots, during a demonstration against the restrictions implemented to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus, at the grounds of the Cannstatter Wasen festival in Stuttgart, southern Germany, on May 9, 2020. (Photo | AFP)$ Technology

Covid consipracy theory video Plandemic' viewed by millions before...

Its spread illustrates how easy it is to use social media as a megaphone for dubious content, and how difficult for...

13 May 2020 7:51 PM IST

One of the techniques helping this effort of Facebook was a system to identify near identical images, to address the reposting of malicious images and videos with minor changes to evade detection. (Photo | AFP)

Facebook throws open hateful memes' challenge for researchers to...

The social media giant is leaning on AI to filter out objectionable content as the coronavirus has sidelined most of its...

13 May 2020 4:56 PM IST

Content moderation at Facebook is going to be a long fraught battle, led by the board. (Photo | AFP)

Tech This Week | Will Facebook's Supreme Court' make the internet a...

Best case scenario: The body achieves incremental progress by laying out key principles that guide Facebook's content...

11 May 2020 5:11 PM IST

Facebook faces antitrust investigations, like other big tech companies such as Google and Amazon, and Mark Zuckerberg pointed out to the probes to claim there was no arrangement with Trump on keeping his accounts uncensored. (Photo | AFP)

Zuckerberg rubbishes making deal to go soft on Trump

Facebook's CEO was reacting to stories in leading US media that raised questions about possible special treatment to...

20 July 2020 10:32 PM IST

Facebook has removed 35 Facebook accounts, three pages, and 88 Instagram accounts, security policy head Nathaniel Gleicher said. The people behind this network used fake accounts to pose as Americans, amplify and comment on their own content, and manage pages including some posing as President Trump fan pages. (Photo | AFP)

Facebook, Twitter crack down on Russia, China agents trying to sway US...

State-led influence campaigns were prominent on social media during the 2016 US elections and have been seen around the...

7 Aug 2020 7:11 PM IST

TikToks interim CEO Vanessa Pappas proposed a meeting of safety officers from each company to work out details of a collective approach, which we believe will help us all improve safety for our users . (Photo | Pixabay - iXimus)

Come together to stop spread of suicide content, TikTok urges...

It is proposed that nine social media firms speedily identify violent, graphic content, including suicide, and swiftly...

22 Sept 2020 7:33 PM IST

While people can have points of view, they can have leanings, the system is designed to make sure no one person can influence the outcomes, let alone have any unilateral decision making power on this aspect, Facebook India chief Ajit Mohan said. (Photo | Pixabay)

Content goes by Facebook community standards, not ideology, India head...

Ajit Mohan said the content team is guided only by community standards enforced globally and is independent of the local...

20 Sept 2020 4:21 PM IST

Facebook said will also make it clearer which parts of its Workplace internal message board is for discussing contentious political or social issues, and carefully moderate those conversations. (Representative Image)

As things get heated on internal message boards, Facebook mulls...

A year ago on getting complaints about heated, abusive posts, Google told staff to be responsible and thoughtful on...

18 Sept 2020 5:42 PM IST

No one ever is happy with the current amount of content moderation that platforms are undertaking. Some people think it is too little, while others think it is too much.

Tech This Week | Should India have its own social media content...

Platforms are diverse and a one-size-fits-all approach will not work.

5 Sept 2020 6:03 PM IST