South Africa: Facebook is Still Censoring Black Activists

“Black people from all over the world must come together and organize and mobilize against Facebook, on Facebook.”
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A few months ago, the US-based investigative journalism website ProPublica leaked internal documents revealing Facebook’s guidelines for dealing with hate speech and abusive language for its moderators in training. These “guidelines” fall nothing short of racist, discriminatory and tone deaf. One example of blatant racism was a multiple-choice question asking the moderators-to-be, “Which group is protected from hate speech?” Among the options were: female driver, white men and black children. The correct answer to the question was: white men.

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