Winning Bizness Desk
Mumbai. Social media giant Meta has taken major action against objectionable content in India. In November, the company took action against more than 2.29 crore posts of Indian users on Facebook and Instagram. The American tech firm has given this information in its monthly transparency report which said that the company has taken action against more than 1.95 crore content on Facebook and 33.9 lakh content on Instagram. Giving information about the action taken against the objectionable content of Facebook, the company said that action has been taken against 1.49 crore spam content on the social media platform. Apart from this, action has been taken against 18 lakh content related to 'adult nudity and sexual activity' and 12 lakh content related to 'violent and graphic' content.
Meta took strict action on indecent posts
On Instagram, Meta has taken action on one million posts related to suicide or self-harm. Apart from this, the company has taken action on 7.27 lakh violent content, adult nudity and 7.12 lakh content related to sexual activity on the photo and video sharing platform. Action has also been taken by the company against 4.84 lakh content related to bullying or harassment. Meta has identified 2.25 lakh pieces of content on Instagram as promoting 'violence and incitement'. The company received 2,368 complaints on Instagram under the IT Rules, 2021, of which the maximum number of 939 complaints were about account hacking. Apart from this, 891 complaints of fake profiles and 136 complaints of threats or harassment have been received. The company said that it has received 94 complaints on Instagram, in which users have been shown content related to nude or sexual acts.
Complaints of harassment, nudity, sexual activity
Meta has received 889 complaints on Facebook under this rule. To solve 511 of these cases, the company has provided tools to the users. In the case of Facebook also, users have made the most complaints about hacking. Some users are unable to access the Facebook page they used to manage earlier. Apart from this, there have also been complaints of content like threats or harassment, nudity, sexual activity etc. The company said that all complaints about page access have been resolved.
