In recent months, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has been showing exactly how social media platforms are subjective to misleading and harmful information. Facebook is also working on improving its social media platforms against misinformative content, as well as hate speech and harmful posts. Now, about a competition, started by the social media platform, that offers prizes to developers who develop an AI algorithm that will be capable of identifying “hateful memes”.

Facebook stated that memes are hard for artificial intelligence systems to decipher as computers do not understand contextual ...