As smart as human beings are known to be, they remain pretty far from being perfect. This is backed up well by all the occasions that went on to highlight our flaws under one capacity or the other, therefore forcing us to look for some sort of a defensive cover. Fortunately enough, we’ll find exactly the stated cover once we introduce dedicated regulatory bodies across the board. The move was a legitimate game-changer, considering it wasted no time in compensating for a lot of our shortcomings, but the utopia will meet a rather abrupt end, and it will happen solely due to technology’s arrival. You see, technology would create such a layered dynamic that it will end up giving certain people a chance to fulfill their ulterior motives at the expense of others. By doing so, it will, like you can guess, also nullify our progress. Nevertheless, all is still not lost. In fact, if we take a moment and assess some recent cases, we’ll see how the tide is turning once again. The famous Big Tech group is no longer running the show, and Meta’s recent move does a lot to prove the same.
Amidst the extensive scrutiny it has been receiving as of late, Meta is making another attempt at cracking into the regulators’ good books. In a recent announcement, the social media giant announced an important Community Feedback Policy update, which focuses rather heavily on getting rid of fake reviews. According to certain reports, the platform will take stringent action against any manipulation of reviews through incentivization, irrelevant comments, graphic content, and even spam. Like in other areas, Meta will rely upon machine learning technology to ensure proper enforcement at every step along the way. However, considering these systems require a bit of time to learn new policies, the company has also encouraged users to report suspicious reviews whenever they come across one.
“We create and update all of our policies in line with the industry and technology as it evolves and we design our policies to keep misleading, false and abusive content off our platforms,” Meta notes. “While we know our work is never done, we are committed to making our technologies a trusted place for our community.”
The policy update interestingly comes after Facebook removed over a whopping 16,000 groups last year for trading fake reviews. The discovery led to the introduction of many new automated detection procedures. Furthermore, it also resulted in a stricter overall approach, an approach which has been all about keeping a serious track of the offenders and handing out permanent bans to all those users who pick up multiple violations.