Facebook anti-spam system bug took down several legitimate posts

Facebook anti-spam arrangement bug took downwardly several legitimate posts

Many posts had to do with coronavirus and COVID-19

A bug in Facebook's anti-spam system led to several legitimate articles nearly coronavirus and COVID-19 being marked as spam.

Every bit noted byThe Verge, forth with several Twitter users, Facebook'south anti-spam system went haywire. Several people who shared posts from well-known publications received messages that those posts violated Facebook's spam standards.

Former Facebook main security officer (CSO) Alex Stamos tweeted virtually the issue. According to Stamos, Facebook's machine learning program was "going nuts with less human oversight" thank you to the social network choosing to send dwelling house content moderators. Due to privacy commitments the company fabricated, content moderators typically can't work remotely.

We're on this – this is a bug in an anti-spam system, unrelated to whatever changes in our content moderator workforce. We're in the process of fixing and bringing all these posts back. More than soon.

— Guy Rosen (@guyro) March 17, 2020

Still, Facebook's vice president of integrity, Guy Rosen, responded to Stamos, saying the bodily cause was a "issues in an anti-spam system," and has aught to do with changes in the number of content moderators. Farther, Rosen says Facebook has now fixed the issue and restored the afflicted posts.

Additionally, Rosen notes that the visitor restored other posts affected by the bug and not just those related to the COVID-xix outbreak.

Nosotros've restored all the posts that were incorrectly removed, which included posts on all topics – not just those related to COVID-19. This was an result with an automated system that removes links to abusive websites, but incorrectly removed a lot of other posts too.

— Guy Rosen (@guyro) March 18, 2020

Finally, Rosen too clarified the cause of the issue. The bug in question was with an automated system designed to remove links from abusive websites. However, the issues caused the organization to remove several other posts as well.

Considering the social media visitor committed to keeping misinformation near coronavirus off of its website, the issues comes at a fourth dimension when doing so is more critical than ever. Hopefully similar bugs don't let misinformation sneak onto the platform.

Source: Twitter, (two) Via: The Verge