Metaplatforms Inc. META says he Hate speech detection has decreased significantly Facebook and Instagram – The same may not apply to Elon Musk‘s Twitter.

What happened: On Tuesday, Meta released its latest integrity and transparency reports. It states that Meta’s hate speech detection rate fell from 95.6% to 90.2% in the third quarter of 2022.

Similarly, Meta saw bullying and harassment content drop from 76.7% to 67.8% on Facebook and from 87.4% to 84.3% on Instagram.

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Meta also removed 16.7 million terrorism-related content (although some non-infringing videos were mistakenly removed and eventually restored), 4.1 million drug-related posts, and 1.4 billion spam items. Similar actions were carried out on Instagram.

Meta’s Widely Viewed Content report also states that the Menlo Park, California-based company has improved spam detection and blocking mechanisms on Facebook. It also removes users engaged in “inauthentic behavior”.

Why it matters: Hate speech has long been a headache for social media giants like Facebook and Twitter.

In March of last year, Facebook introduced feed control features after facing hate speech and misinformation.

Musk is currently facing similar allegations leading to an increase in hate speech on the microblogging site from people like oreos biscuit maker Mondelez International.

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