The tech giant said it has established a “special operations center” with experts to monitor the situation and remove content that violates its policies more quickly.
Meta is tapping experts fluent in Hebrew and Arabic to assess if content violates its policies on dangerous organizations and individuals, violent and graphic materials, and hate speech, among others.
The company said it already removed or flagged more than 795,000 pieces of content in those langauges.
Meta also reiterated that Hamas, the Palestinian militant group behind last weekend’s attacks on Israel, is banned from Facebook and Instagram under its dangerous organizations and individuals policy.
“We want to reiterate that our policies are designed to give everyone a voice while keeping people safe on our apps,” Meta said.
Meta’s crackdown comes as tech platforms and regulators contend with a flood of violent content and misinformation related to the conflict in Israel and Gaza.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg received a letter from the European Union just days ago urging his company to be “very vigilant” about removing “illegal content” and disinformation.
While Meta drew mild concern from the EU, European regulators are far more worried about X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
The EU announced Thursday it would investigate X over its handling of “terrorist and violent content and hate speech” related to the conflict in Israel and Gaza.
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