In a statement on its digital newsroom
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2025 7:19 am
Facebook has announced an update to its policy on dangerous people and organizations , which aims to eliminate terrorists, violent extremist groups and hate organizations on the social network and also on Instagram.
the company said that some algeria phone number of its measures predated the March terrorist attack in Christchurch , New Zealand, and that the event and the subsequent Christchurch Call to Action assembly have strongly influenced its policies and methods of implementation.
"The attack demonstrated the misuse of technology to spread radical hate speech and highlighted where we needed to improve our detection and enforcement of violent extremist content," Facebook said in a statement.
In the aftermath, representatives from the social network met with world leaders in Paris in May to sign the Christchurch Call to Action agreement. That same month, Facebook applied a one-strike policy to a broader range of offenses related to its live-streaming feature via Facebook Live, and partnered with Microsoft, Twitter, Google and Amazon on a nine-point industry plan to combat the spread of terrorist content .
The company revealed Tuesday that it has developed a definition to guide its decision-making on enforcement against terrorist organizations, updating how it defines such groups . This update is born out of consultation with experts in counterterrorism, international humanitarian law, freedom of expression, human rights and law enforcement.
The social network wrote: “We’ll need to continue to refine our tactics because we know bad actors will continue to change theirs, but we believe these are important steps to improve our detection capabilities. For example, the Christchurch attack video did not alert our automatic detection systems because we did not have enough content showing first-person footage of violent events to effectively train our machine learning technology. That’s why we’re working with government and law enforcement officials in the US and UK to obtain footage from their firearms training programs, providing a valuable source of data to train our systems. With this initiative, we aim to improve our detection of real-world first-person footage of violent events and avoid incorrectly detecting other types of footage, such as fictional content from movies or video games.”
the company said that some algeria phone number of its measures predated the March terrorist attack in Christchurch , New Zealand, and that the event and the subsequent Christchurch Call to Action assembly have strongly influenced its policies and methods of implementation.
"The attack demonstrated the misuse of technology to spread radical hate speech and highlighted where we needed to improve our detection and enforcement of violent extremist content," Facebook said in a statement.
In the aftermath, representatives from the social network met with world leaders in Paris in May to sign the Christchurch Call to Action agreement. That same month, Facebook applied a one-strike policy to a broader range of offenses related to its live-streaming feature via Facebook Live, and partnered with Microsoft, Twitter, Google and Amazon on a nine-point industry plan to combat the spread of terrorist content .
The company revealed Tuesday that it has developed a definition to guide its decision-making on enforcement against terrorist organizations, updating how it defines such groups . This update is born out of consultation with experts in counterterrorism, international humanitarian law, freedom of expression, human rights and law enforcement.
The social network wrote: “We’ll need to continue to refine our tactics because we know bad actors will continue to change theirs, but we believe these are important steps to improve our detection capabilities. For example, the Christchurch attack video did not alert our automatic detection systems because we did not have enough content showing first-person footage of violent events to effectively train our machine learning technology. That’s why we’re working with government and law enforcement officials in the US and UK to obtain footage from their firearms training programs, providing a valuable source of data to train our systems. With this initiative, we aim to improve our detection of real-world first-person footage of violent events and avoid incorrectly detecting other types of footage, such as fictional content from movies or video games.”