Despite the utter hysteria and media induced panic and paranoia over the threat of white supremacism and the increasing hated of straight, white men promoted in popular culture The Washington Post has revealed that most hate speech on world’s largest social media site, Facebook, is directed at whites and men.
In the article in the Washington Post the authors Elizabeth Dwoskin, Nitasha Tiku, and Craig Timberg — find this to be a problem because they believe that anti-white and anti-male sentiments on the platform should be ignored and expressions of hatred against white people for their race or men for their sex should be allowed.
The article stated:
“Yet racist posts against minorities weren’t what Facebook’s own hate speech detection algorithms were most commonly finding.
The software, which the company introduced in 2015, was supposed to detect and automatically delete hate speech before users saw it. Publicly, the company said in 2019 that its algorithms proactively caught more than 80 percent of hate speech.”
The article added:
“But this statistic hid a serious problem that was obvious to researchers: The algorithm was aggressively detecting comments denigrating white people more than attacks on every other group, according to several of the documents.”
It continued:
“One April 2020 document said roughly 90 percent of ‘hate speech’ subject to content takedowns were statements of contempt, inferiority and disgust directed at white people and men, though the time frame is unclear. And it consistently failed to remove the most derogatory, racist content.”
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