The company said the ads shouldn’t have been approved and pointed to the work it has done “to catch hateful and inflammatory content in the most widely spoken languages, including Amharic.”
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The test couldn’t have been much easier — and Facebook still failed.
Facebook and its parent company Meta flopped once again in a test of how well they could detect obviously violent hate speech in advertisements submitted to the platform by the nonprofit groups Global Witness and Foxglove.
The hateful messages focused on Ethiopia, where internal documents obtained by whistleblower Frances Haugen showed that Facebook’s ineffective moderation is “literally fanning ethnic violence,” as she said in her today!
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