Meta Give Updates On Sentences For Facebook Policy Violators

JAKARTA - Following the feedback provided by its Board of Management, Meta has finally updated Facebook's penalty system to users who violate its policies, to be more effective and fair.

"With this update, we can still keep our app safe while allowing people to express themselves," said Monika Bickert, Vice President of Content Policy on her blog, quoted on Sunday, March 26.

With this new system, Meta says it will focus on helping its users better understand why the company removed their content on Facebook, which has also proven to be more effective at preventing repeated breaches, rather than limiting their ability to upload content.

The tech giant admits that it will continue to apply account restrictions that will usually be given to accounts after they commit the seventh violation continuously.

For more serious offenses, such as posting content that includes terrorism, child exploitation, human trafficking, promotion of suicide, sexual exploitation, non-medical drug sales, or promotion of harmful individuals and organizations, Meta will continue to apply immediate consequences, including account deletion.

The Meta analysis states that there are nearly 80% of users with a low number of reprimands not going to violate the company's policies again in the next 60 days. This means that most people respond well to the warning.

But at the same time, some people are still posting infringing content. To that end, the Meta analysis team showed that applying tougher penalties to the seventh strike was a more effective way to provide the users needed guidance while still getting rid of malicious accounts.

"In addition to being more effective, this change will be fairer for people who may be affected by the disproportionate impact of our old system, especially when we make the wrong moderation decisions or miss context," he added.

Previously, the Meta system would use a long penalty, such as a 30-day block, which causes users to not be able to create content.

However, these restrictions irritated people who meant to be good but made unintentional mistakes.

Our new system, which reduces the number of constraint periods, will allow us to detect persistent violators in a shorter time, leading to faster and more impactful actions, "concluded Bickert.