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FB ups investments to curb hate speech in Sri Lanka
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IANS | 11 Jul, 2019
Facebook has significantly increased its investments to ramp up Sinhala
and Tamil language expertise targeting to curb hate speech and other
harmful contents originating from Sri Lanka on the social media
platform.
"We have invested heavily on Sinhala and Tamil language
expertises as we have promised. We significantly ramped up our language
expertise in Sri Lanka through hiring more experts," a Facebook
spokesperson told the media here on Wednesday.
He noted that
their public policy team members in Sri Lanka have worked closely with
the global team in providing additional context to curb hate speech on
the platform, reports the Daily Mirror newspaper.
According to
Facebook's latest community standards enforcement report, the social
media platform removed four million pieces of hate speech globally from
the platform in the first quarter of the year.
The spokesperson
highlighted that 65.4 per cent of hate speech content was removed by its
proactive detection tools, compared to 51.5 per cent in 3Q18, which is a
significant improvement.
"We have invested in proactive detection tools; AI tools become stronger over last few years," he said.
A
team of Facebook officials also hosted its second community standard
forum in Sri Lanka on Tuesday with civil society leaders and experts.
According
to reports, there were nearly six million Facebook users in Sri Lanka
as of last year and there was also a significant number of fake profiles
originating from the island nation, which are mainly used to circulate
harmful content.
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