Facebook & Instagram removed 1.73 crore spam posts

Instagram & Facebook in India, removed over 1.73 crore posts as spam in July

A progressive and much needed step taken to combat regressive practices of violating the noble purpose behind social networking sites.

Summary

Globally, Meta has removed over 2.7 Crore posts from Facebook and Instagram in lieu of the complaints received through their grievance redressal mechanism.

As per the recent news that is viral on the internet, the meta owned Instagram and the Facebook has removed over 1.7 crores post as spams in month of July.

The action was taken on the basis of complaints received under its grievance redressal mechanism as stated by the company. They claim that they have responded to their 100% of user reports.

The Explanation

Meta, in their monthly reports under the IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, announced that the organization has removed 2.7 crore posts on Facebook and 20 Lakhs from the Instagram.

Globally, in addition to the action taken on the spam on the Facebook, 1.1 lakhs post related to the hate speech, 23 lakhs post related to the violence & graphic content, and 27 Lakhs post related to nudity and sexual content were removed.

While on Instagram, 9 lakhs post were related to the suicide and self-injury, 22,000 instances of Hate speech, and 3.7 lakhs post were of nudity and sexual content were removed.

As per the IT rules, the company’s social media platforms are supposed to address the user’s complaints through grievance redressal mechanism. The company revealed that they have received 626 and 1033 reports from the users on Facebook and Instagram respectively and they stated that they have responded to the 100% reports of such kinds.

On their Facebook platform, they claim that they have resolved the issues for 603 reports by appropriate tools and taken action based on their company’s policies.

While on Instagram, they announced that they resolved around 945 cases by taking help of the tools given to users.

Closure

Social networking sites like Facebook and Instagram were created from the purpose of providing a common platform to the common voice and growing professional and personal networks to share information to either educate or entertain the users. But, if due to some reason, if a post or view is hurtful in nature and affecting the sentiments of a group or an individual then it should be taken back. The action taken by Meta owned Facebook and Instagram proved that ill-intent activities will not be tolerated and entertained if they are found containing any matter that go against their policies.

News Credit: The Hindu