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Facebook algorithm removes Declaration of Independence as hate speech

America's founding document might be too politically incorre...
tan new version
  07/04/18
lol at these Reason cucks, they're just as bad: None of t...
Cowardly Meetinghouse
  07/04/18
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tan new version
  07/17/18
hot take: they are and were savages
rambunctious persian box office
  07/17/18


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Date: July 4th, 2018 4:20 AM
Author: tan new version

America's founding document might be too politically incorrect for Facebook, which flagged and removed a post consisting almost entirely of text from the Declaration of Independence. The excerpt, posted by a small community newspaper in Texas, apparently violated the social media site's policies against hate speech.

Since June 24, the Liberty County Vindicator of Liberty County, Texas, has been sharing daily excerpts from the declaration in the run up to July Fourth. The idea was to encourage historical literacy among the Vindicator's readers.

The first nine such posts of the project went up without incident.

"But part 10," writes Vindicator managing editor Casey Stinnett, "did not appear. Instead, The Vindicator received a notice from Facebook saying that the post 'goes against our standards on hate speech.'"

https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/03/facebook-algorithm-flags-removes-declara

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4017438&forum_id=2#36362012)



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Date: July 4th, 2018 4:28 AM
Author: Cowardly Meetinghouse

lol at these Reason cucks, they're just as bad:

None of this is meant as a defense of referring to Native Americans as "savages." That phrasing is clearly racist and serves as another example of the American Revolution's mixed legacy; one that won crucial liberties for a certain segment of the population, while continuing to deny those same liberties to Native Americans and African slaves.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4017438&forum_id=2#36362016)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 6:33 PM
Author: tan new version



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Date: July 17th, 2018 6:38 PM
Author: rambunctious persian box office

hot take: they are and were savages

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4017438&forum_id=2#36447553)