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Facebook executive brags about increased censorship of so–called ‘hate speech’

Updated: May 25, 2021 at 9:57 am EST  See Comments

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May 25, 2021 (News Busters) – Facebook recently took the opportunity in a new report to brag about how much content it has censored.

The Big Tech company released its quarterly Community Standards Enforcement Report. Facebook’s vice president of Integrity Guy Rosen, noted in the report that in the first Quarter (Q1), which included January through March of 2021, that so-called “hate speech” on the platform “continues to decrease.” 

The report noted that content it decided was “hate speech” constituted “0.05-0.06%, or 5 to 6 views per 10,000 views.” According to a graph provided in the blog post, the “[p]revalence of hate speech violations” for “Jul-Sep 2020” was “0.10%-0.11%,” which would yield approximately a 50 percent decrease compared to Q1 of 2021.

Not only has Facebook censored more content, but an increasing number of posts are apparently caught by AI rather than just human moderators. “Advancements in AI technologies have allowed us to remove more hate speech from Facebook over time, and find more of it before users report it to us,” Rosen noted in the report.   

The report also provided more specifics on the

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