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Facebook says hate speech seen in one out of 1000 views on its platform

By Elizabeth Culliford on Nov 20, 2020 6:43AM
Facebook says hate speech seen in one out of 1000 views on its platform

About 95 percent of flagged content is now proactively detected.

Facebook for the first time on Thursday disclosed numbers on the prevalence of hate speech on its platform, saying that out of every 10,000 content views in the third quarter, 10 to 11 included hate speech. The world's largest social media company, under scrutiny over its policing of ...

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