Facebook reviews ‘race-blind’ hate speech policy

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ NEW YORK: Facebook has decided to revise its hate speech algorithms to prioritise blocking slurs against blacks, Muslims and others that have historically faced discrimination, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. The change is set to alter the social network’s “so-called race-blind” system that has removed anti-white comments and excised innocuous comments by people of colour, the Post said. The reform is at an early stage and aims to target speech deemed “the worst of the worst”, including slurs against blacks, Muslims, people of more than one race, the LGBTQ community…