So, the increase can be attributed not only to better tracking equipment, but also to more complaints favored. The fact that the number of removals tripled means that content removed because of user complaints rose from 341,000 to almost 500,000, in absolute figures, despite the decrease in percentage. Another graph in the report shows that 71.56% of the 1.2 million users were tracked by Facebook itself, until user complaints started flooding in in the first quarter of 2018, this figure rose to 85.6%. Footnote 1 The numbers may seem high, but they only tell half the story. These actions were responsible for around 70% of the increase in Q1”. This increase is mostly due to improvements in our detection technology, including using photo-matching to cover with warnings photos that matched ones we previously marked as disturbing. Let’s look at for instance the category “Graphic Violence”: “In Q1 2018, we took action on a total of 3.4 million pieces of content, an increase from 1.2 million pieces of content in Q4 2017. A “Transparency” report was published, which included statistics on the extent of content removal, organized by category. On May 15, 2018, Facebook continued its springtime campaign to restore its reputation in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. These numbers are a testimony to content removal on a disproportionately large scale, also known as censorship. The numbers may seem high, but they only tell half the story.
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