Facebook, Twitter try to limit U.S. regulation at hearing
Senior executives of Facebook and Twitter faced a Congressional committee Wednesday morning trying to limit the amount of regulation the U.S. government might impose on social media companies in the wake of increasing evidence that foreign organizations are using them for disinformation campaigns there and in other countries.
“Actions taken show how determined we are to do everything we can do to stop this from happening,” said Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.
She noted the company has more than doubled the number of people working in its safety and security divisions to 20,000, reviewing reports in 50 languages. With the use of machine learning Facebook is more proactive in finding abuse, she said. In the first three months of this year over 85 per cent of violent content was either taken down or added warning labels before they were reported.
“We are now blocking millions of attempts to register false accounts each and every day,” she added.
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