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Facebook’s vice president of international affairs, Nick Clegg, said recently that both Facebook and Instagram have rejected 2.2 million ads because they are interfering with the US presidential election. For the same reason, it deleted 120,000 posts and warned 150 million posts.
He explained that using AI technology, it is now possible to view and remove more posts and profiles faster than users report. In addition, 35,000 people are employed to confirm the facts, and it is partnering with more than 70 media outlets around the world.
It is not clear how much of the advertisements and contents rejected this time are interference from abroad or whether it is a domestic campaign. However, most of the activities, including facts and other information, were neglected, and it can be said that the situation is quite different from that of the previous presidential election.
Facebook began introducing a fact-checking system after the 2016 presidential election, and added it to Instagram in 2019. Since then, the scope of application has been expanded to the Facebook group, where misinformation occurs frequently, but problems such as ABC, which participated in the initial development, have also left.
In 2017, there were reports that CEO Mark Zuckerberg had approved a reduction in exposure to progressive media such as Mother Jones following changes to the newsfeed algorithm. However, it may be a better situation than it was in 2016, but Facebook has been criticized for allowing the sending of an election campaign containing misinformation by politicians, etc., so it seems necessary to continue making efforts until the end of the election. Related information can be found here .
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