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Facebook may be trying to censor hate-speech, but others are putting it to good use.
From CNN
Law enforcement agencies in Dallas and Florida on Thursday became the latest to announce they are investigating allegations some of their employees made offensive comments on Facebook after a watchdog group compiled screenshots of the posts and shared them in an online database.
The screenshots of the public posts, published in the Plain View Project's online database, purport to show officers or police department employees making hateful or racist remarks.
[...] Since its founding in 2017, the Plain View Project says it has compiled images of more than 5,000 social media posts and comments by more than 3,500 current and former police officers in eight jurisdictions throughout the US.
Researchers obtained rosters of police officers and then looked them up on Facebook, according to the project's website.After examining the profiles to confirm they belonged to police officers, they reviewed public posts and comments to see if they would "undermine public trust and confidence in police."
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday June 21 2019, @07:46PM
I'm not sure which country you're in, but yes, it's a serious problem in the US. How serious, we're not quite clear on, because the police departments refuse to release statistics on how many people are killed by cops and what their names are, but it's at least in the hundreds annually.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.