Meta-owned Facebook ‘actioned’ about 21.6 million content material items throughout 13 violation classes in India throughout March, in line with a month-to-month report by the social media large.
The content material “actioned” belonged to classes together with spam, bullying and harassment, baby endangerment, harmful organisations and people, violent and graphic content material, and grownup nudity and sexual exercise amongst others.
Facebook took motion in opposition to about 21.6 million content material items between March 1-31, 2022 throughout a number of classes, whereas Instagram actioned almost 2.7 million items of content material throughout 12 classes throughout the identical interval, in line with Meta’s recently-released India month-to-month report.
Under the IT guidelines that got here into impact in May final yr, massive digital platforms (with over 5 million customers) should publish periodic compliance stories each month, mentioning the main points of complaints obtained and motion taken thereon. It additionally consists of particulars of content material eliminated or disabled by way of proactive monitoring utilizing automated instruments.
In case of Facebook, the newest report confirmed that of the 21.6 million actioned items, 14.9 million have been in spam class, 2.5 million in violent and graphic content material class and a pair of.1 million in grownup nudity and sexual exercise class.
Some of the opposite classes below which content material was actioned included bullying and harassment (2,75,700), suicide and self-injury (5,70,800), harmful organisations and people: terrorism (1,61,800); and harmful organisations and people: organised hate (17,800).
“Between 1st and 31st March, we received 656 reports through the Indian grievance mechanism, and we responded to 100 per cent of these 656 reports,” the report mentioned.
It added: “Of these incoming reports, we provided tools for users to resolve their issues in 556 cases. These include pre-established channels to report content for specific violations, self-remediation flows where they can download their data, avenues to address account hacked issues etc”.
For Instagram, 1,150 stories have been obtained in March by means of the Indian grievance mechanism, and “we responded to 100 per cent of the 1,150 reports”, it mentioned.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”