@raphjd said in Facebook’s ‘Race Blind’ Algorithm Backfires In Their Face: Finds 90% Of ‘Hate Speech’ Was Directed Toward White People And Men:
90% Of ‘Hate Speech’ Was Directed Toward White People And Men
As a white male, my first question is: anyone considered that we probably deserve 90% of the hate?
@raphjd said in Facebook’s ‘Race Blind’ Algorithm Backfires In Their Face: Finds 90% Of ‘Hate Speech’ Was Directed Toward White People And Men:
What's funny is that even with this, the left still tells us that it's white supremacist males who are doing all the hate speech online.
"Even with this"? Sure, because those statistics don't actually disprove that at all.
The reporting says nothing about the source of all that hate speech directed at white males. I have no problems whatsoever believing that white males are on both sides of most of the hate speech online, giving and receiving. Certainly, it's easy to find a plentitude of examples just on this forum.
In fact, the reporting doesn't even claim what their headline appears to be saying. That headline twists the actual information found in the original WaPo article so far around it turns it into a lie.
The Facebook report DOES. NOT. SAY. that 90% of online hate speech is directed towards white people and men. Not at all, by any interpretation.
What it actually says is that 90% of the hate speech Facebook's algorithm detected was hate speech directed towards white people and men. While it was far less successful at detecting the copious amounts of other hate speech that was directed towards other groups.
Basically, Facebook created a white-victimization bot, the algorithmic equivalent of Sean Hannity.