The end of the year is always like this, hearts soften and people always end up analyzing their mistakes during the year and even, in some cases, they get back together with some possible disaffection. Apparently, not only in personal relationships this balance is being made. This time, Facebook decided to apologize for the mistakes made by its team of moderators.
The social network of Mark Zuckerberg, throughout the year, faced several problems, from Fakes News and even investigations into a possible failure to allow Russians to influence the US election campaign.
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However, according to ProPublica, an investigative journalism agency, Facebook is not capable of fighting violent content within the social network. To prove it, the agency sent a sample with 49 posts with hate speech and expressions of hate.
The posts ended up being sent to Facebook moderators within 900 different posts. However, Facebook admitted that it made a mistake in 22 cases.
In six of the cases, the social network blamed users for not correctly tagging posts. Either way, Facebook admitted that 19 of its decisions relied on sexist, racist and anti-Muslim rhetoric.
"We regret the mistakes made. We must do better," said Facebook vice president Justin Osofsky.
To top it off, the executive said that Facebook will increase its team of reviewers to 20 people in 2018. The executive said that every week the social network deletes 66 posts.
