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'Enough evidence to prove Facebook's bias towards BJP': TMC MP Derek O'Brien writes to Mark Zuckerberg
• 5 years agoEarlier, the Congress party had written to Zuckerberg, demanding a probe into the alleged bias and interference by Facebook India in the country's electoral democracy
Facebook says COVID-19 affected its ability to remove harmful content around suicide, self-injury, child nudity, sexual exploitation
Tech2 News Staff • 5 years agoFacebook, however, says its detection rate increased 6 points in the second quarter, to 95 percent from 89 percent.
Pinterest looking for ways to juggle between tasteful nudity and porn
Nishtha • 12 years agoWhere do you draw the line between pornography and artistic nudes? The thin line that marks the fence is where Pinterest seems to be sitting currently.
After Facebook blocked neo-fascist group's account for hate speech, Italian judge orders to reopen it
• 5 years agoThe court said Facebook would be fined €800 for each day of violation of the judicial order.
Facebook being used as a human rights violation tool yet again, this time in Assam: Report
Tech2 News Staff • 5 years agoA new report examined how Facebook is being used to spread hate speech to fuel ethnic violence.
Facebook slapped with $2.3 million fine for under-reporting complaints
• 6 years agoTallying only reports made under the harder-to-find complaints procedure led to artificially low numbers.
Facebook bans four insurgent groups fighting against Myanmar’s military
• 6 years agoThe bans targeted only some of the ethnic minority insurgent groups in Myanmar
Viral fake video shared via Facebook causes political upheaval in Cameroon
• 6 years agoWith millions of posts going up on Facebook each day, isn't it the platform's responsibility to crack down hate speech?
Facebook stops advertisers from targeting people interested in Jew-hate groups
• 7 years agoFacebook said it shut down 470 “inauthentic” accounts as part of an internal investigation into those ads.
Facebook deletes 66,000 hate speech posts reported by users per week
Ians • 8 years agoFacebook is also exploring the possibility of using artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically filter out hate speech.