Facebook papers on fake news, hate speech: Govt works on report

THE MINISTRY of Electronics and Information Technology is preparing a report on the crucial findings related to India in the internal documents collected by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, including contended disagreement in algorithmic recommendations that lead new druggies in the country to “ misinformation and hate speech”, The Indian Express has learnt Still, we will call their directors to explain how their algorithms work and the action they’ve taken so far to fight misinformation and hate speech, “ If demanded. For now, we will have to study (the exposures made by Haugen),” sources said.

The report is likely to be prepared and finalised over this week, and contain details similar as how Facebook failed to check the spreadofmisinformation and hate speech on its platform in India primarily because it didn’t have the right tool to flag or cover content in Hindi and Bengali The findings of a Facebook experimenter in Kerala from a tone-created stoner account, which encountered several cases of hate speech and misinformation on the base of algorithmic recommendations of the platform, are also likely to be included in the report, the sources said.

Also Read Findings on hate speech, misinformation in India led to deeper analysis, says Facebook In her complaint to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Haugen had said that despite being apprehensive that “ RSS druggies, groups, and runners promote fear-mongering,anti-Muslim narratives”, Facebook couldn’t take action or flag this content, given its “ lack of Hindi and Bengali classifiers” Citing an undated internal Facebook document named “ Inimical Dangerous Networks-India Case study”, the complaint transferred to US SEC bynon-profit legal organisation Whistleblower Aid on behalf of Haugen noted “ There were a number of dehumanizing posts (on) Muslims … Our lack of Hindi and Bengali classifiers means much of this content is noway flagged or actioned, and we’ve yet to put forth a nomination for designation of this group (RSS) given political perceptivity.”

Opinion Facebook deploys hardly any coffers in India to attack misinformation. This must change Top News Right Now Cheering Pak UAPA in Srinagar, FIR in Agra, a sacking in Udaipur Pegasus poking row SC order on plea for independent inquiry moment WHO seeks interpretations from Bharat Biotech on Covaxin, to meet on Nov 3 for’ final assessment Piecemeal from Haugen’s exposures about the contended inactivity by Facebook on hate speech and misinformation being spread in India, The New York Times reported that the company’s own workers were scuffling with the goods the platform had on druggies in India, especially in the run-up to the 2019 general choices.

Responding to queries transferred also by The Indian Express, Facebook had said that grounded on the algorithmic recommendations made to the test stoner regard it had created, the company had accepted “ deeper, more rigorous analysis” of its recommendation systems in India “ This exploratory trouble of one academic test account inspired deeper, more rigorous analysis of our recommendation systems, and contributed to product changes to ameliorate them. Product changes from posterior, more rigorous exploration included effects like the junking of frame content and communal and political Groups from our recommendation systems,” a Facebook prophet had said The New York Times reported that the Facebook experimenter’s report “ was one of dozens of studies and memos written by Facebook workers scuffling with the goods of the platform on India” “ They give stark substantiation of one of the most serious examens levied by mortal rights activists and politicians against the world- gauging company It moves into a country without completely understanding its implicit goods on original culture and politics, and fails to emplace the coffers to act on issues once they do,” the report said.