Facebook has removed from its homonymous social network 4.5 million content between April and September of this year for violating its policies by promoting suicide and self-harm, while on Instagram 1.68 million posts have been removed in the same period.
These data appear in the fourth edition of the Community Standards Application Report, which includes the second and third quarter of 2019 and which Facebook showed on Wednesday. In the report the company added for the first time the data of the social network Instagram, also of its property.
In this report, the social network provides data on four areas of its policies: child nudity and child sexual exploitation; regulated goods (specifically, illegal sale of firearms and drugs); suicide and self-harm; and terrorist propaganda.
In the first section, on suicide and self-harm, Facebook took measures on approximately two million pieces of content in the second quarter of 2019, of which 96.1% were proactively detected by the company. In the third quarter, 2.5 million pieces of content were removed, 97.1% proactively detected.
On Instagram, the company removed approximately 835,000 pieces of content in the second quarter of 2019, and in the third quarter this figure has reached 845,000 pieces.
The content that encourages suicide and self-harm that have been unsubscribed from Facebook and Instagram includes images and representations that according to the company “could lead others to behave similarly.”
K. Tovar
Source: dpa
