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Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it had invested more than $ 13 billion in security and Security measures since 2016, days after a newspaper reported that the company had failed to correct “the adverse effects of the platform” that the researchers had identified.
The social media The giant said it now has 40,000 people working on safety and security, up from 10,000 five years ago.
Facebook has downplayed the negative effects on young users of its Instagram app and has had a poor response to employee alarms about how the platform is being used in developing countries by human traffickers, said The Wall Street Journal reported last week, citing an internal business review. documents.
“In the past, we haven’t addressed safety and security issues early enough in the product development process,” the company said in a blog post. “But we fundamentally changed that approach.”
Facebook said its artificial intelligence technology helped him block 3 billion fake accounts in the first half of this year. The company has also removed more than 20 million fake COVID-19 and vaccine content.
The company said it is now removing 15 times more content that violates its hate speech standards on Facebook and its image-sharing platform Instagram than when it started reporting it in 2017.
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