A Daily Beast Exclusive
The company touts its new tech for catching hate speech. But neither the filter nor Facebook’s human monitors caught a hundred posts calling for people to be shot.
By Justin Glawe
Facebook users freely post about killing immigrants, minorities, and
public figures in spite of the company’s terms of service that clearly
prohibit threats of violence and hate speech.
The company just two weeks ago touted new technology it says detects 52 percent of hate speech before anyone reports it. (Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed
the technology caught 90 percent of pro-ISIS and al Qaeda content.) Yet
that technology didn’t catch more than 100 instances in the last six
months of Facebook users advocating to shoot or kill others, according
to a Daily Beast review.
Nearly three-quarters of the posts
examined by The Daily Beast made reference to migrant caravans that have
been demonized by right-wing media and President Donald Trump.
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