Peculiar Facebook moderation policy exposed
Peculiar Facebook moderation policy exposed: A newspaper has revealed how Facebook censors what its users see has been revealed by internal documents.
The report described how facebook used manuals to determine the criteria if the posts were too violent, sexual, racist, hateful or supported terrorism. The report said that the facebooks moderators were overwhelmed and only had seconds to decide if the posts should stay. It is believed that the document revealed in the report is similar to those facebook uses to guide its staff.
The report comes at a time when the British MPs have said that social media giants had “failed” to tackle toxic content. The report is based on 100 manuals which are internally used by Facebook to educate moderators about what could, and could not, be posted on the site. These manual cover sensitive topics such as hate speech, revenge porn, self-harm, suicide, cannibalism and threats of violence.
According to the moderators which were interviewed, the policies of facebook which were used to judge content were “inconsistent” and “peculiar”. According to the moderators the decision making process for judging whether content about sexual topics should stay or go were the most “confusing.”
The Open Rights Group which campaigns on digital rights issues, has said that the report started to show how much influence Facebook could wield over its two billion users. “Facebook’s decisions about what is and isn’t acceptable have huge implications for free speech, these leaks show that making these decisions is complex and fraught with difficulty.”
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