Meta: Facebook and Instagram parent company hails new AI system to detect harmful content

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It follows months in which the firm has been criticised for allegedly prioritising its own profit before the wellbeing of its users - something it has denied

"For example, one recent task was to identify content that shares misleading or sensationalised information in away that likely discourages COVID-19 vaccinations."

"In another, separate task, the new AI system improved an existing classifier that flags content that comes close to inciting violence," it added, with the example post featuring an image conatining the question:"Does that guy need all of his teeth?" Meta says the FSL can work in more than 100 languages - something which has also been a challenge for its content moderators.inflammatory posts from the Myanmar military targeting the country's minority Rohingya Muslim population.

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