Facebook: Artificial intelligence removes 99% of posts related to terrorism

Now, 99% of the material related to Al Qaeda and ISIS is detected automatically and not by other users

Facebook has announced that the use of artificial intelligence systems and other automated techniques to remove posts related to terrorism is paying off, but there is still room for improvement.

Now, 99% of the material related to Al Qaeda and ISIS is detected automatically and not by other users. Facebook said that once the suspicious material was detected, 83% (and any copies of the same content) were automatically removed within just one hour of posting. In fact, in some cases, posts were deleted "in their infancy" before they even became available online on Facebook.

But Facebook, according to the BBC and Reuters, has acknowledged that much work needs to be done to track down other terrorist and extremist groups circulating material through the larger social media.

Until recently Facebook used a mix of people and software to identify which posts should be removed, this work is now done almost exclusively by automated systems, which analyze texts, photos and videos, which have their own distinct "digital fingerprints". .

Machine-learning artificial intelligence software "trains" itself gradually to recognize the content of terrorism-related texts, based on specific words and phrases.

The company said it had so far focused its efforts on al-Qaeda and ISIS (Islamic State) because they posed the greatest threat worldwide. But he assured that he is now extending his "net" to other groups, although, as he said, locating the posts of all these different groups, "will not be as easy as pressing a button."

The US government and several European leaders have stated that they would like Facebook, with its 2,1 billion users, to move faster so that all terrorist and extremist material can be deleted within two hours of its posting. European governments have let the threat of fines against Facebook hover if it does not respond.

Next week Facebook, Twitter, Alphabet (Google's parent company) and other technology companies will meet with EU governments and the European Commission to discuss how to expand and expedite the removal of terrorist and extremist content. of social network.

Source: News247