Facebook has dismissed media reports claiming that thousands of its content moderators rely on inaccurate and disorganised information to determine what content to allow or remove from its platform.

Reacting to a report in The New York Times that accused Facebook of being "ad hoc", "disorganized", "secretive", and doing things "on the cheap", the social media network on Saturday said the debate on content moderation should be based on facts not mischaracterizations.