New Delhi: Based on lessons learned from past elections in India and globally, Facebook has doubled down on its efforts to support and protect assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Assam, Kerala and Puducherry.
The company said on Wednesday that it is taking steps to enhance civic engagement, combat hate speech, limit misinformation and remove voter suppression.
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"To decrease the risk of problematic content going viral in these states and potentially inciting violence ahead of or during the election, we will significantly reduce the distribution of content that our proactive detection technology identifies as likely hate speech or violence and incitement," the company said in a statement.
Facebook said that it may deploy technology to identify new words and phrases associated with hate speech, and either remove posts with that language or reduce their distribution.
"In addition to our standard practice of removing accounts that repeatedly violate our Community Standards, we will also temporarily reduce the distribution of content from accounts that have recently and repeatedly violated our policies," it added.