Last Updated: March 02, 2024, 13:00 IST
Millions of unhealthy content material is eliminated by Meta each month
Bad content material is faraway from these platforms as they do not meet the insurance policies that Meta has for these apps in India.
Meta mentioned that it took down over 17.8 million items of unhealthy content material throughout 13 insurance policies for Facebook and over 4.8 million items of objectionable content material throughout 12 insurance policies for Instagram in India in January.
In January, Facebook obtained 29,548 experiences by way of the Indian grievance mechanism, and mentioned that it supplied instruments for customers to resolve their points in 21,060 circumstances.
These embody pre-established channels to report content material for particular violations, self-remediation flows the place they’ll obtain their knowledge, avenues to handle account hacked points, and many others, Meta mentioned in its month-to-month report in compliance with the IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.
“Of the other 8,488 reports where specialised review was needed, we analysed content as per our policies, and took action on 4,632 complaints in total. The remaining 3,856 grievances were reviewed but may not have been actioned,” Meta added.
On Instagram, the corporate obtained 19,311 experiences by way of the Indian grievance mechanism.
(*22*) it mentioned.
Of the opposite 9,835 experiences the place specialised evaluate was wanted, Meta analysed content material and took motion on 4,849 complaints in complete.
The remaining 4,986 experiences have been reviewed however could not have been actioned.
Under the brand new IT Rules 2021, massive digital and social media platforms, with greater than 5 million customers, need to publish month-to-month compliance experiences.
“We measure the number of pieces of content (such as posts, photos, videos or comments) we take action for going against our standards. Taking action could include removing a piece of content from Facebook or Instagram or covering photos or videos that may be disturbing to some audiences with a warning,” mentioned Meta.
In December 2023, Meta took down over 19.8 million items of content material throughout 13 insurance policies for Facebook and over 6.2 million items of content material throughout 12 insurance policies for Instagram.
(This story has not been edited by News18 workers and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – IANS)
