Facebook ignored racial bias research, employees say

Posted by djsumdog on Friday July 24, 2020 @01:18AM
from the nbcnews.com dept.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-management-ignored-internal-research-showing-racial-bias-current-former-n1234746

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Re:Facebook ignored racial bias research, employees say by rbecker on Friday July 24, 2020 @01:27AM (#23936030)

If you read the article, you'll find that the 'bias' was because Facebook used the same criteria for hate speech no matter who the target was. For example, if you substitute 'White' with 'Black', and it looks like hate speech, then the original version was also considered hate speech.

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Re:Facebook ignored racial bias research, employees say by unmdplyr on Friday July 24, 2020 @01:46AM (#23936171)

The title is a bit misleading..

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