Facebook says it will now ban 'implicit hate speech' like blackface and anti-Semitic stereotypes
Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, U.S., October 23, 2019.Facebook will now ban content that includes "implicit hate speech" like blackface or anti-Semitic stereotypes, the company announced Tuesday.
Facebook will also undergo a quarterly third-party audit of its hate speech moderation starting in 2021.Facebook is tweaking is community standards to ban "implicit hate speech" on its platforms, and will soon take down content in violation of the policy like blackface and anti-Semitic stereotypes.from civil rights groups in recent months over concerns about the spread of hate speech and misinformation on its platform.
She added that the policy would not affect certain content with news value, like posts displaying a politician's use of blackface.
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