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2024-08-08 09:25:27 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

Headline is from a 2021 article from Volve referring to a Washington post report (see links below) Question is - Did FB change the algorithm to look for ‘hate speech’ against minority groups to get a desired result or was the algorithm really biased before? https://web.archive.org/web/20221107135503/https://en-volve.com/2021/12/04/facebooks-race-blind-algorithm-backfires-in-their-face-finds-90-of-hate-speech-was-directed-toward-white-people-and-men/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/11/21/facebook-algorithm-biased-race/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/s26njw/facebooks_algorithm_detects_90_of_hate_speech/

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• Headline is from a 2021 article from Volve referring to a Washington post report (see links below) Question is - Did FB change the algorithm to look for ‘hate speech’ against minority groups to get a desired result or was the algorithm really biased before? https://web.archive.org/web/20221107135503/https://en-volve.com/2021/12/04/facebooks-race-blind-algorithm-backfires-in-their-face-finds-90-of-hate-speech-was-directed-toward-white-people-and-men/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/11/21/facebook-algorithm-biased-race/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/s26njw/facebooks_algorithm_detects_90_of_hate_speech/