Dive summary:
- A protest from Women, Action and the Media and the Everyday Sexism Project (WAM) has encouraged Facebook to admit that their practices to remove hate-speech and violent imagery against women has "failed."
- This announcement from Facebook (detailed on the site here) follows a WAM blog post claiming that major advertisers, like Nissan UK, were pulling advertising until Facebook promised to remove violent words and imagery against women.
- WAM will serve in advisory role as Facebook works to improve their practices for identifying and removing hateful and violent content against women.
From the article:
"A blog post by the Facebook safety department reads: 'In recent days, it has become clear that our systems to identify and remove hate speech have failed to work as effectively as we would like, particularly around issues of gender-based hate. In some cases, content is not being removed as quickly as we want. In other cases, content that should be removed has not been or has been evaluated using outdated criteria. We have been working over the past several months to improve our systems to respond to reports of violations, but the guidelines used by these systems have failed to capture all the content that violates our standards. We need to do better—and we will.'"
