Costs of engagement

Facebook needs better moderation

Internal documents released by whistle-blowers who are former employees of Facebook indicate the social media giant has a huge and growing problem with moderation in India, which has the largest user-base of 350 million. The company’s studies show it has long been aware about the network being used to propagate fake news, hate speech, and violent images. It doesn’t seem to have taken adequate steps to mitigate this. In one of the leaked studies, released by data scientist Frances Haugen, the methods used to push right-wing anti-Muslim agendas were outlined. Groups are created and run by individuals using multiple fake IDs