Meta announced in January It would be over Some efforts of content moderation, loosen its rules and place more emphasis on the support of “free expression”. The shifts derive from fewer posts removed from Facebook and Instagram, the company revealed Thursday in his quarterly construction report of the community standards. Meta said it His new policies He had helped to reduce half of the incorrect contents in the United States without exposures widely to more offensive content than the changes.

The new postponementWhich was mentioned in an update to a post on the January blog by the head of the Global Affairs Meta Joel Kaplan, it shows that Meta has removed a necessary content in less than a third on Facebook and Instagram globally for violating its rules from January to March of this year who did in the previous quarter, or about 1.6 billion articles compared to just 2.4 billion, according to a wired analysis. In the last quarters, the total quarterly removals of the technology giant had previously increased or remained flat.

Through Instagram and Facebook, Meta reported removing about 50 % less than posts to violate its spam rules, almost 36 pierce less for the expiration of children and almost 29 Pier NT for a hateful conduct. The removals have increased in one great category-survivor rules and self-harm content of the 11 that Meta lists.

The quantity of content that the destination removes regularly from one quarter to another and a series of factors could have contributed to the dip in the Takedown. But the company itself recognized that “the changes made to reduce application errors” were one of the reasons for the great fall.

“In a series of political areas we saw a decrease in the amount of content provided and a decrease in the percentage of content on which we took measures before a user reported it,” wrote the company. “This was partly because the change we have made to ensure that we are making less errors. We have also seen a corresponding reduction in the amount of content and in the end restored.

Meta has relaxed some of its content rules at the beginning of the year when CEO Mark Zuckerberg described as “in contact with the traditional speech”. The changes have allowed Instagram and Facebook users of Occupation a little language That human law activists consider hateful towards immigrants or individuals who identify themselves as transgender. For example, the destination now allow “accusations of mental illness or anomaly when they are based on gender or sexual orientation”.

Starting from the large changes, which were annuudd, just as Donald Trump had to start his second term as president of the United States, Meta also stopped relying on the automated tools to identify and remove the suspected places of less serious violations of its rules that push the frustration by users.

During the first quarter of this year, the automated meta systems represent 97.4 percent of the content removed by Instagram pursuant to the company’s vocal policies of the company, down only 1 percentage point since the end of last year. (Users report to Meta triggered the remaining percentage.) But the automated removals for bullying and harassment on Facebook decreased by almost 12 percentage points. In some categories, such as Nitony, the Meta system was slightly more proactive than the previous quarter.