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    Report details Facebook’s bizarre logic on hate speech

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    Daniel Cooper
    Daniel Cooper
    06.28.2017

    Facebook has more than two billion users, and ensuring that the discussion between them remains civil is an understandably difficult task. But, if evidence found by ProPublica is true, the company's own policy on hate speech may cause unreasonable disparities in how comments are moderated. The report claims that Facebook has built a comment moderation policy that protects "white men from hate speech, but not black children."