Meta exec unable to explain 79pc drop in hateful content blocks


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

Policy changes introduced last year by tech giant Meta to avoid censorship preceded a 79 per cent reduction in the amount of harmful content being hidden or removed from Facebook, the Antisemitism royal commission has heard.

Meta’s global director of policy Benjamin Good was unable to explain the drop when it was put to him by counsel assisting Richard Lancaster on Monday, or provide quantitative data on the policy changes’ …

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