The discussion about how Meta purportedly twisted the content moderation discussions around 2020 was a revelation for me. This quote from Meta captures the alleged spin well:
> We proactively detect 99 percent of the hate speech removed from Facebook in Myanmar
If the accusation is correct, they are not saying that they capture 99% of all Myanmar hate speech on Facebook. I remember that the big news agencies reported it that way. Meta is actually saying "of the 5% that we do catch, 99% was caught automatically." The key phrasing is "99% of the hate speech removed".
The author is playing word games. Author states facebooks has good estimates for amount of hate content. Then say 99% (of terrorist material) of an unknown amount.
Do they have good estimates or is this an unknown amount?
The article cites Frances Haugen's whistleblower disclosures:
> …we’re deleting less than 5% of all of the hate speech posted to Facebook. This is actually an optimistic estimate—previous (and more rigorous) iterations of this estimation exercise have put it closer to 3%, and on V&I [violence and incitement] we’re deleting somewhere around 0.6%…we miss 95% of violating hate speech.
Facebook removed 95% of hate speech identified by automation / 5% manually of the hate speech they could identify which was between 3 and 5%.
Facebook also said they removed 99% of terrorist/isis posting. Of which the author claims the total amount is unknown. But we know the % of hate speech because of facebooks ability to guess (as stated by the author of which the author was confident). Now we are lead to believe that terrorist content can't be estimated by facebook.
Either we accept they can estimate and take the 99% of terrorist content removal in total at face value (of the total amount) or we must ignore facebooks hate content estimates
> We proactively detect 99 percent of the hate speech removed from Facebook in Myanmar
If the accusation is correct, they are not saying that they capture 99% of all Myanmar hate speech on Facebook. I remember that the big news agencies reported it that way. Meta is actually saying "of the 5% that we do catch, 99% was caught automatically." The key phrasing is "99% of the hate speech removed".