Washington, United States—Harmful content including hate speech has surged across Meta's platforms since the company ended third-party fact-checking
Washington, United States—Harmful content including hate speech has surged across Meta’s platforms since the company ended third-party fact-checking in the United States and eased moderation policies, a survey showed Monday.
“These policy shifts signified a dramatic reversal of content moderation standards the company had built over nearly a decade,” said the survey published by digital and human rights groups including UltraViolet, GLAAD, and All Out. Ninety-two percent of surveyed users said they were concerned about increasing harmful content and felt “less protected from being exposed to or targeted by” such material on Meta’s platforms.
“Following the changes announced in January we’ve cut enforcement mistakes in the US in half, while during that same time period the low prevalence of violating content on the platform remained largely unchanged for most problem areas,” the report said. “But after helping to set a standard for content moderation online for nearly a decade, Mark Zuckerberg decided to move his company backwards, abandoning vulnerable users in the process.The groups implored Meta to hire an independent third party to “formally analyze changes in harmful content facilitated by the policy changes” made in January, and for the tech giant to swiftly reinstate the content moderation standards that were in place earlier.
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