In 2021, Meta registered 71,970 workers worldwide.
Meta’s revenues were approximately $117 billion.
Meta generated $114.93 billion in advertising revenue that year.
Social networks have become the best tool in today’s world, so these same Companies are making changes to better support users. Meta announced that it will help companies remove content that exploits children or terrorism.
Facebook, which in 2021 had 2,740 million users in January, 11.8 percent more than in 2020, for this 2022 report, Mark Zuckerberg’s social network now accumulates 2,910 million, plus 6.2 percent. YouTube and WhatsApp accompany her for another year on the podium.
In this sense, Zuckerberg still brings together most of the social networks with the most users in the world, such as WhatsApp. with two billion users, Messenger with 988 million users and Instagram with 1,478 million users.
Goal and its changes
This Wednesday it was announced that Meta, who next January will assume the presidency of the Operations Board of the Global Internet Forum to Combat Terrorism, has announced free open source software called Hasher-Matcher-Actioner (HMA) to prevent the spread of terrorist and child exploitative contentincluding violent and extremist images, videos, through the web and/or digital platforms such as Facebook.
“We hope that the tool, called Hasher-Matcher-Actioner (HMA), will be adopted by a number of companies to help them stop the spread of terrorist content on their platforms, and will be especially useful for smaller companies that do not have the same resources than the largest ones”, can be read on the official Meta blog.
According to the social network, the HMA tool will be made available to other companies free of charge to prevent the spread of terrorist content online.
Along those lines, Hasher-Matcher-Actioner was revealed to improve on Meta’s existing open source image and video matching software, and the company said it can be used against any content that violates its policies.
Also, this tool uses artificial intelligence and relies on “hashes”, which are fingerprints found in images and videos to find copies published elsewhere on the web.
This should make it much easier for companies to track down and remove terrorist and child abuse content. Once infringing material is found, the algorithm generates unique letters and numbers for that content, which can be used to identify copies.
Which means they don’t have to save the offending images or videos themselves, they can simply run all of their content through the databases they use to find potentially rule-violating posts.
“The more companies that participate in the hash-sharing database, the better and more comprehensive it becomes, and the better off we all are at keeping terrorist content off the internet, especially since people will often move from platform to platform to share this. content,” the statement read.
Meta created this artificial intelligence that generates videos from texts and images
Facebook now has more restrictive privacy settings for minors
The company highlighted that since minors are the most vulnerable on social networks, Meta continues to strengthen privacy protection on the platforms it manages. And now, Facebook asks that the youngest mark these options when they log in.
And this is how technology companies continue to work to provide a better experience to their users, where security is paramount.
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