Facebook has already been accused of omission several times for allowing certain posts, but now, the social network has started to pay more attention to content that violates its usage policies.
This Tuesday (19), the company released a report that shows how the fight against piracy is progressing within the social network. According to Facebook, in the first half of the year alone, more than 1,8 million posts were removed from the air at the request of copyright owners. However, among the requests, 31% of them ended up being rejected because they were considered unfounded.
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It all happened thanks to the Rights Manager tool, which between January and June of this year received 224,4 requests to remove material that infringed copyright. The company makes it clear that the number represents only orders, not the number of removals.
To top it off, Facebook revealed that all requests had an average waiting period for content review of one day with the offender receiving the notification. The same was valid for the person responsible for sending the news receiving the negative from the social network.
Regarding Instagram, in the first six months of the year, 70 thousand requests were received and 685,9 thousand images or videos were removed from the air. The data includes not only copyright, but also people impersonating others. That's why we found more removals than requests.
To top it off, Facebook clarified that the policy for removing protected content is less strict and focuses on guidance rather than punishment. Therefore, the company only applies restrictions to users who have successively uploaded copyrighted material.
