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US Declaration of Independence Labeled Hate Speech by Facebook Bots

Accepted submission by mrpg mailto:mrpgNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org at 2018-07-07 00:19:10
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mrpg writes:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/05/us_declaration_of_independence_labeled_hate_speech_by_facebook_bots/ [theregister.co.uk]

Facebook's content-cleansing bots have flagged the United States Declaration of Independence as hate speech.

... The incident highlights two things.

Firstly, The Vindicator says the takedown was automated. As Facebook's pledged to clean up hate speech and fake news with automation, The Social Network™ clearly has work to do to get this right.

... Which shows, again, that Facebook's decisions can change the fate of a business. And now those decisions are being made by tone-deaf robots.

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