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Report: Facebook To Start Policing Anti-Black Speech More Aggressively Than Anti-White Speech

Emily Zanotti
Report: Facebook To Start Policing Anti-Black Speech More Aggressively Than Anti-White Speech
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Facebook will begin policing “hate speech” against disadvantaged minorities more aggressively than “hate speech” directed at others, including white Americans and males, according to a series of internal documents obtained by The Washington Post, reversing what the social media platform’s “race-blind” practices.

Proposed changes would involve a more aggressive, automatic moderating system that could “get better” at detecting what the documents refer to as the “worst of the worst” in “hate speech:” “slurs directed at Blacks, Muslims, people of more than one race, the LGBTQ community and Jews.”

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