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Facebook’s hate speech policies came at the expense of Black users

7 pointsby pkilgoreover 3 years ago

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pkilgoreover 3 years ago
> But Facebook didn’t disclose its findings to civil rights leaders. Even the independent civil rights auditors Facebook hired in 2018 to conduct a major study of racial issues on its platform say they were not informed of the details of research that the company’s algorithms disproportionately harmed minorities.
Bostonianover 3 years ago
Another framing of the article is that black Facebook users were more likely to use hate speech. Since the social penalties for using a racial epithet such as "cracker" are far less severe than the N-word, perhaps this is not surprising.