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Zuckerberg personally demanded changes to Facebook moderation due to low views of his post from the hospital
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanded changes to Facebook's content moderation algorithm and a review of other security measures after his post from the hospital received few views. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) writes about this.
Zuckerberg posted a photo taken after knee surgery in November 2023. The businessman said that he was hospitalized with a torn cruciate ligament during preparation for an MMA fight. This post, as the publication writes, initially attracted very little attention on Facebook. According to WSJ, this happened due to an algorithm that slowed down the spread of health-related viral content.
The moderation conditions for such messages were changed because Meta experts concluded that health-related materials were often false. Zuckerberg's post fell under this restriction and after that he allegedly personally demanded a review of the moderation algorithm.
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The day before, Zuckerberg published a video message and said that Meta, which owns the Facebook, Instagram and Threads platforms, will get rid of fact checkers and “significantly reduce censorship.” He also said the company will increase the amount of recommended political content.
“It’s not right that some things can be said on TV or in Congress, but cannot be said on our platforms,” Zuckerberg said.
CNN writes that along with this, Meta has also updated its policies on hateful behavior, adding new types of content that can be posted on the platform.
Meta users are now allowed to refer to women as “household items or property” and transgender and non-binary people as “it,” the network says, noting that the section that prohibits such rhetoric has been removed from its content moderation rules.
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