In 2018, Facebook has deleted 14 million of terrorism-related contents from its platform

News24xx.com - Facebook has removed about 14 million terrorism-related contents on its platform throughout 2018. Facebook itself defines that the terrorism content as a post that praises, supports or represents ISIS, al-Qaeda and their affiliated groups.

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"We measure how much content (such as posts, pictures, videos or comments) that we delete because they conflict with our standards for terrorist propaganda, especially those related to ISIS, al-Qaeda and their affiliates" Facebook wrote in its official statement, such as quoted from CNBC, Friday, November 9th 2018.

More specifically, Facebook said that they deleted 1.9 million contents in the first quarter of 2018. Then 9.4 million terrorist contents in the second quarter and 3 million terrorist contents in the third quarter of 2018. Many of the deleted contents are the post that has been long and posted before 2018. But, Facebook also mentioned that they have removed 1.2 million new contents in the first quarter of 2018, 2.2 million contents in the second quarter and 2.3 million content in the third quarter.

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Facebook explained that they were focused on removing terrorism content before being seen by many users. For this reason, Facebook managed to reduce the average time for how long the terrorism content was on the platform after users reported it. In the first quarter, the average time is 43 hours. But it fell to 22 hours in the second quarter and to 18 hours in the third quarter.

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