Meta purged over 21 mn pieces of bad content on FB, Insta in India in May

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Meta said that it took down over 15.6 million pieces of bad content across 13 policies for Facebook and more than 5.8 million pieces of objectionable content across 12 policies for Instagram in India in May...

In May, Facebook received 22,251 reports through the Indian grievance mechanism and said that it provided tools for users to resolve their issues in 13,982 cases...

These include pre-established channels to report content for specific violations, self-remediation flows where they can download their data, avenues to address account hacked issues, etc, Meta said in its monthly report in compliance with the IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021...

Of these, we provided tools for users to resolve their issues in 7,300 cases, it said.. Of the other 7,073 reports where the specialised review was needed, Meta analysed the content and took action on 4,172 complaints in total...

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