Meta accused of ignoring reports on dangerous content
by Simon_Hurtz from The Verge - All Posts on (#6DMB2)
Photo by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge According to Meta, its Trusted Partner program is a key part of our efforts to improve our policies, enforcement processes, and products, to help keep users safe on our platforms." According to some trusted partners, though, Meta neglects its flagship initiative - leaving it significantly underresourced, understaffed, and allegedly prone to operational failures" as a result.
That's one of the core accusations of a report that the media nonprofit Internews published on Wednesday. The Trusted Partner program consists of 465 global civil society and human rights groups. It aims to provide them with a designated channel to alert Facebook and Instagram of dangerous and harmful content such as death threats, hacked accounts, and incitement...