Social media giant Facebook has open-sourced algorithms that it uses for detecting and blocking harmful content for the betterment of the online community. The harmful content may refer to child exploitation, spreading terrorism, or graphic violence, and the aforesaid algorithms are actively used by the company to detect and prevent them from being circulated on its platform.
It feels so good to know that major tech companies are striving to remove abusive content from the internet by sharing their cutting-edge resources so everyone can get contribute towards making the internet a better place. In fact, Microsoft’s contribution “PhotoDNA” which helped fight child exploitation and Google’s Content Safety API has been massively helpful for controlling wide-spread violent content across the internet.
