Facebook took action on about 45% of users' complaints in MarchThe social media platform took action on less than one-fourth of grievances in cases where users have objected to the content which they cl...
04 May, 2023, 10.32 AM IST
Meta took action over 38.4 million pieces of content in a monthMeta actioned 2.4 million pieces of content under the policy which is under adult nudity and sexual activity. It actioned a further 260,000...
02 May, 2023, 08.14 PM IST
Meta says reviewing call to make adult nudity policies more inclusiveA Meta spokesperson told AFP Thursday that the company welcomed the board's move and had already restored the images, agreeing they should ...
20 Jan, 2023, 01.46 PM IST
Meta took down 22.9 million posts in India in NovemberMeta published these numbers as part of new guidelines under the IT Rules, 2021, which mandate digital and social media platforms with more...
23 Dec, 2022, 12.48 PM IST
Meta takes action against 2.7 crore posts on Facebook, Instagram in IndiaMeta on its own identified 9.98 lakh "Dangerous Organizations and Individuals: Terrorism" related content and finally it took action agains...
01 Sep, 2022, 12.50 PM IST
WhatsApp banned over 2.2 mn accounts in JuneWhatsApp received 123 account support-related complaints; Instagram acted upon 619,500 pieces of content for adult nudity/sexual activity
02 Aug, 2022, 09.06 PM IST
Actioned over 11.6 million pieces of content on FB & over 3.2 million on Instagram from January 1- 31: MetaOn Instagram, it took action on 466,200 posts on adult nudity and sexual activity between January 1-31, 285,900 posts on bullying and haras...
01 Mar, 2022, 05.43 PM IST
Over 19.3 million content pieces 'actioned' on Facebook proactively in India during Dec: MetaAs per the company's India monthly report, Spam, Violent and Graphic Content, and Adult Nudity and Sexual Activity were among the key polic...
01 Feb, 2022, 09.51 AM IST
Facebook rejects ads focused on women's sexual health citing policies on adult products & services: ReportIn most cases, Facebook had labeled the ads as containing “adult content”.
12 Jan, 2022, 06.31 PM IST
Facebook, WhatsApp release compliance reports under new IT rulesThe US-based social media network proactively acted on 3.5 million posts related to violent and graphic content and 2.6 million posts conce...
31 Aug, 2021, 08.02 PM IST
Facebook took action against 30M items in the first monthly compliance report under India IT rulesInstagram took action against about two million pieces across nine categories during the same period, the social media giant said in its ma...
03 Jul, 2021, 10.44 AM IST
YouTube discloses prevalence of rule-breaking videos for the first timeAbout 1.6 million views on YouTube out of every 1 billion are of a video that violates its content policies.
06 Apr, 2021, 11.48 PM IST
Facebook says hate speech, violent content dropped in Oct-Dec 2020The improvement in prevalence is mainly due to changes Facebook made for reducing problematic content in News Feed, Vice President (integri...
12 Feb, 2021, 12.07 PM IST
From hate speech to nudity, Facebook's oversight board picks its first casesThe board, which Facebook created in response to criticism of its handling of problematic content, said it had received 20,000 cases since ...
01 Dec, 2020, 09.25 PM IST
Facebook unveils fifth Community Standards Enforcement ReportFacebook said when the COVID-19 crisis emerged, the company had the tools and processes in place to move quickly and it was able to continu...
12 May, 2020, 10.51 PM IST
House Panel wants a fix to social media’s porn problemThe panel, formed in December, has so far met with representatives of Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, Google and ShareChat. Last week, the panel...
13 Jan, 2020, 06.53 AM IST
Facebook axed 583 million fake accounts, enforcing standardsFacebook came under intense scrutiny earlier this year over the use of private data and the impact of harmful content on its 2.2 billion mo...
15 May, 2018, 11.33 PM IST