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Facebook removes posts promoting anti-quarantine protests

Post author By Randall
Post date April 20, 2020
Categories In anti-quarantine, content, coronavirus, covid-19, Facebook, gear, governors, harmful content, misinformation, News, posts, remove, social distancing, Tech

[ad_1] Facebook says it will take down posts created through its Events tool if they encourage violating social distancing orders, but it may leave other Facebook posts, including groups about the protests, CNN reports. “We reached out to state officials to understand the scope of their orders, not about removing specific protests on Facebook,” the […]

Facebook releases tools to flag harmful content on GitHub

Post author By Randall
Post date August 2, 2019
Categories In algorithm, business, child exploitation, child safety, Facebook, finger print, github, hash, Internet, open source, pdq, phash, photo matching, photos, remove, Security, Tech, terrorist, tmk+pdqf, tomorrow, video matching, Videos, violence

[ad_1] Currently, when Facebook finds offensive photos and videos, it removes them and its algorithms assign a hash, or a digital fingerprint. Its technology can then use those hashes to determine whether two files are the same or similar, even without the original image or video. So when multiple copies of, say, terrorist videos appear […]