Facebook ‘Bug’ reveals companies plan for flagging ‘Hate Speech’

Facebook accidentally rolled out what appeared to be a crowd-sourced “hate speech” flagging system, in which users were asked whether a post constituted hate speech or not.  Earlier today, Facebook users began reporting that questionnaires had been attached to innocuous posts, asking them if they

considered the content of the posts to be “hate speech.”  It quickly became apparent that the feature had been rolled out in an unfinished state:  Facebook VP of product Guy Rosen said that the feature was a “bug” and a “test” that had been incorrectly applied to all posts, including Mark Zuckerberg’s. READ MORE