<P> Sri Lankan telecommunications minister Harin Fernando stated that Facebook had been too slow removing content and banning users who were using its platforms to facilitate violence during the 2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka . Facebook stated that it is increasing the number of Sinhalese - speakers it employs to review content . </P> <P> Facebook has a real - name system policy for user profiles . The real - name policy stems from the position "that way, you always know who you're connecting with . This helps keep our community safe ." The real - name system does not allow adopted names or pseudonyms, and in its enforcement has suspended accounts of legitimate users, until the user provides identification indicating the name . Facebook representatives have described these incidents as very rare . A user claimed responsibility via the anonymous Android and iOS app Secret for reporting "fake names" which caused user profiles to be suspended, specifically targeting the stage names of drag queens . On October 1, 2014, Chris Cox, Chief Product Officer at Facebook, offered an apology: "In the two weeks since the real - name policy issues surfaced, we've had the chance to hear from many of you in these communities and understand the policy more clearly as you experience it . We've also come to understand how painful this has been . We owe you a better service and a better experience using Facebook, and we're going to fix the way this policy gets handled so everyone affected here can go back to using Facebook as you were ." </P> <P> On December 15, 2015, Facebook announced in a press release that it would be providing a compromise to its real name policy after protests from groups such as the gay / lesbian community and abuse - victims . The site is developing a protocol that will allow members to provide specifics as to their "special circumstance" or "unique situation" with a request to use pseudonyms, subject to verification of their true identities . At that time, this was already being tested in the U.S. Product manager Todd Gage and vice president of global operations Justin Osofsky also promised a new method for reducing the number of members who must go through ID verification while ensuring the safety of others on Facebook . The fake name reporting procedure will also be modified, forcing anyone who makes such an allegation to provide specifics that would be investigated and giving the accused individual time to dispute the allegation . </P> <P> There have been complaints of user statuses being mistakenly or intentionally deleted for alleged violations of Facebook's posting guidelines . Especially for non-English speaking writers, Facebook does not have a proper support system to genuinely read the content and make decisions . Sometimes the content of a status did not have any "abusive" or defaming language, but it nevertheless got deleted on the basis that it had been secretly reported by a group of people as "offensive". For other languages than English, Facebook till now is not able to identify the group approach that is used to vilify humanitarian activism . In another incident, Facebook had to apologize after it deleted a free speech group's post about the abuse of human rights in Syria . In that case, a spokesman for Facebook said the post was "mistakenly" removed by a member of its moderation team, which receives a high volume of take - down requests . </P>

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