Facebook's AI is deleting one million accounts every day as the Indian election heats up

• Facebook India’s managing direction, Ajit Mohan, just published a blog outlining Facebook’s 18 month journey to prepare for India’s general election.
• In the blog he claims that using artificial intelligence and machine learning, Facebook is able to remove nearly one million accounts a day.
• In the past, Facebook’s content moderation guidelines has been called into question for being biased.

As the beginning of India’s general election inches closer, Facebook and its associated platforms — WhatsApp and Instagram — are $4 in their efforts to keep from creating controversy.


The managing director and vice president of Facebook’s India operations, Ajit Mohan, just $4 a blog post claiming that using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), the social networking site has been able to block or remove nearly one million accounts a day.


He claims that using AI and ML to monitor content helps the company “identify abusive or violating content, and remove it in bulk.”


There are human fact checkers also in play. The partnership with seven accredited fact-checking organisation, Facebook is able to cover content in eight different languages — English, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Gujarati — that it believes to be the most commonly used online.

While the mass removal of accounts is impressive it should be kept in mind that Facebook has over 300 million users and its content moderation practices have been called into question in the past for being biased.

Just last week, Facebook $4 nearly 700 pages from Facebook and most of them were associated to Congress, one of India's political parties for exhibiting ‘inauthentic behavior’.

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