Meta transparency report: Decrease in bullying, harassing content on Facebook and Instagram

Meta has published its quarterly integrity and transparency report for third quarter of 2022. As per the report, there is a sharp decline in hate speech-related content from 13.5 million to 10.6 million on Facebook in the quarter. The social media conglomerate claims that it has improved the accuracy of its artificial intelligence technology using data from previous user appeals and is now able to distinguish between actual hate speech and humorous terms used between friends.

In a blog post, Guy Rosen, VP of Integrity at Meta wrote that the company can now “identify posts that could have been removed by mistake without appropriate cultural context,” as they can detect “better detect words that may be considered offensive or inappropriate in one context but not another.”