The social media giant said it now has 40,000 people working
on safety and security, compared with 10,000 five years ago.
Facebook played down the negative effects on young users of
its Instagram app and had a weak response to alarms raised by employees over
how the platform is used in developing countries by human traffickers, the Wall
Street Journal reported last week, citing a review of internal company
documents.
"In the past, we didn't address safety and security
challenges early enough in the product development process," the company
said in a blog post. "But we have fundamentally changed that
approach."
Facebook said its artificial intelligence technology has
helped it block 3 billion fake accounts in the first half of this year. The
company also removed more than 20 million pieces of false COVID-19 and vaccine
content.
The company said it now removes 15 times more content that
violates its standards on hate speech across Facebook and its image-sharing
platform Instagram than when it first began reporting it in 2017. -Reuters
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