Facebook mentioned on Tuesday it has invested greater than $13 billion (roughly Rs. 95,830 crores) in security and safety measures since 2016, days after a newspaper reported the corporate had failed to repair “the platform’s ill effects” researchers had recognized.

The social media large mentioned it now has 40,000 folks engaged on security and safety, in contrast with 10,000 5 years in the past.

Facebook performed down the damaging results on younger customers of its Instagram app and had a weak response to alarms raised by staff over how the platform is utilized in growing nations by human traffickers, the Wall Street Journal reported final week, citing a evaluation of inside firm paperwork.

“In the past, we didn’t address safety and security challenges early enough in the product development process,” the corporate mentioned in a blog post. “But we have fundamentally changed that approach.”

Facebook mentioned its synthetic intelligence know-how has helped it block 3 billion pretend accounts within the first half of this 12 months. The firm additionally eliminated greater than 20 million items of false COVID-19 and vaccine content material.

The firm mentioned it now removes 15 occasions extra content material that violates its requirements on hate speech throughout Facebook and its image-sharing platform Instagram than when it first started reporting it in 2017.

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