SAN FRANCISCO, California–Facebook on Thursday said it is revising its systems to prioritize blocking slurs against Black people, gays and other groups historically targeted by vitriol, no longer automatically filtering out barbs aimed broadly at whites, men or Americans.
The change in Facebook’s algorithm is a shift from the social network’s ethnicity and gender-neutral system that removed anti-white comments and posts such as “Men are dumb” or “Americans are stupid.”
“We know that hate speech targeted towards under-represented groups can be the most harmful,which is why we have focused our technology on finding the hate speech that users and experts tell us is the most serio…
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