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 * Facebook has changed its policy to 'de-prioritize' slurs against white people
* Company will focus on removing slurs against black people, LGBTQ, and Jews
* Facebook views hateful language against those groups as 'worst of the worst'
* Anti-Defamation League praised the move as 'important and long overdue'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9019539/Facebook-prioritizes-removing-slurs-against-white-people-men-Americans.html

Excerpt: Facebook has de-prioritized removing hateful slurs against white people, men and Americans, instead focusing on blocking slurs against black people, gays, Jews and other groups.

The change on Thursday in Facebook's algorithm is a shift from the social network's 'race-blind' system that previously removed IGNORED anti-white insults as well posts such as 'men are dumb' or 'Americans are stupid.'

'We know that hate speech targeted towards under-represented groups can be the most harmful, which is why we have focused our technology on finding the hate speech that users and experts tell us is the most serious,' said Facebook spokeswoman Sally Aldous.

Roughly 10,000 fewer posts are now being deleted each day after the change in policy, according to documents reported by the Washington Post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/03/facebook-hate-speech/

Over the past year, Facebook has also updated its policies to catch more implicit hate speech, such as depictions of blackface and stereotypes about Jewish people, Aldous noted.

'Thanks to significant investments in our technology we proactively detect 95 percent of the content we remove and we continue to improve how we enforce our rules as hate speech evolves over time,' Aldous said.

The software tweak will initially target the most blatant slurs, including those against black people, Muslims, people of more than one race, the LGBTQ community and Jews, Facebook said.

'This is an important and long overdue step forward,' Anti-Defamation League chief executive Jonathan Greenblatt said.

'The ADL and other groups have advocated for Facebook to better fight anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia and 'all forms of extremism,' according to Greenblatt.

'While we are encouraged that Facebook is attacking the most serious symptoms of the disease that it permitted to spread for so many years, we need to see additional steps to cure the sickness of hate on social media,' Greenblatt said.

Facebook said that since August it identified more 600 militarized social movements, and removed their pages or accounts, part of an effort that took down 22.1 million posts containing 'hate speech.'

The internet giant and its rival Twitter have been taken to task on Capitol Hill by Republicans who say the platforms are biased against conservatives.

On Wednesday, Twitter said it was expanding its definition of hateful content to ban language which 'dehumanizes' people on the basis of race, ethnicity or national origin.

Twitter said it would remove offending tweets when they are reported, and offered examples such as describing a particular ethnic group as 'scum' or 'leeches.'