Claiming that the hate speech on Facebook witnessed a decrease for the fourth quarter in a row this year, the newly branded company Meta has revealed that the hate speech prevalence on Instagram stood at 0.02 per cent for the third quarter (Q3) ending September.
Facebook's data on the prevalence of hate speech discloses that the ratio in the September quarter (Q3) was 0.03 per cent or 3 views of hate speech per 10,000 views of content on the platform. This ratio is lower than the previous quarter (Q2) where it was 0.05 per cent or 5 views of hate speech per 10,000 views of content.
"We continue to see a reduction in hate speech due to our improvements in our technology and ranking changes that reduce problematic content in News Feed, including through improved personalization," Meta said in a statement.
13.6 million pieces of content were removed from Facebook for violating its violence and incitement policy, it added
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"On Instagram, we removed 3.3 million pieces of this content with a proactive detection rate of 96.4 per cent," Meta said.
In Q3, the prevalence of bullying and harassment content was 0.14-0.15 per cent or between 14 and 15 views of bullying and harassment content per 10,000 views of content on Facebook.
On Instagram, it was 0.05-0.06 per cent or between 5 and 6 views per 10,000 views of content on Instagram.
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"We removed 9.2 million pieces of bullying and harassment content on Facebook, with a proactive rate of 59.4 per cent. We removed 7.8 million pieces of bullying and harassment content on Instagram with a proactive rate of 83.2 per cent," the company noted.
