| Published Fri, November 16th 2018 at 07:46, Updated November 16th 2018 at 07:51 GMT +3Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said the independent body will scrutinize inappropriate content on the social network. [Photo: Courtesy]Facebook announced Thursday it is creating an independent body to make potentially precedent-setting calls on what content should be yanked from the social network. An independent body to be constituted in the coming year will act as a "higher court" of sorts, considering appeals of content removal decisions made by the social network, Zuckerberg said. "We are getting better at proactively identifying violating content before anyone reports it, specifically for hate speech and violence and graphic content," Facebook said in the new transparency report. Facebook said that since its last transparency report, the amount of hate speech detected proactively, before anyone reported it, has more than doubled.

Source: Standard Digital November 16, 2018 04:52 UTC