Fresh insider glare on Facebook actions in India

Two former Facebook employees who had accused the company of indifference to hate speech in languages other than English, and of connivance with ruling regimes resulting in propagation of hate, have reiterated their condemnation of their ex-employer’s actions in India.

Speaking at a webinar about a human rights report published by Meta, Facebook’s holding firm, former FB data scientist Frances Haugen said: “Facebook’s report points (out that) they have an oversight board that people can appeal to, that they’re transparent about what they take down….

“But the reality is that they won’t give us even very basic data on what content-moderation systems exist in which languages, and (on) the performance of those systems.”