VKontakte explained the reasons for blocking feminist public pages

The social network “VKontakte” explained to “Taki Dela” the reasons for blocking the public pages “Wrong Feminism” and “Overheard Feminism” .

The press service said that the communities were blocked for hostile statements.

“Also, the communities “Anti-Feminism and -LGBT” and “Anti LGBT | Anti YAOI” , “Russian anti-LGBT movement named after. Jorgen” and others. In addition, the “Bottle” community was blocked today,” the press service added.

Dvach and Lepra drew attention to the blocking of feminist public pages . “Wrong Feminism” had more than 13 thousand subscribers, and “Overheard Feminism” had more than 31 thousand subscribers. Lepra linked the blocking of public pages to the fact that VKontakte began to fight hate speech.

VKontakte began working on artificial intelligence to automatically recognize materials with hostile statements. The new neural network is designed to quickly find materials with hostile statements and publications that provoke the audience to show aggression.