Masters of the Universe: Leaked Documents Show Facebook’s Internal Turmoil About ‘Hate Speech’

Sound more reasonable than Twitter and Youtube, but do they follow their rules?

The transgender rule is insane. Can we call whitey worms and pigs?

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/05/25/leaked-documents-show-facebooks-internal-turmoil-about-hate-speech/
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbkbbq/facebook-charlottesville-leaked-documents-american-nazis

A collection of leaked documents appears to show Facebook redefining rules around hate speech and re-educating content moderators following the Charlottesville protest in 2017.

A log of updates to hate speech policy documents show some of the new phrases and sentiments that were defined as hate speech following the Charlottesville protest. In November 2017, trainers added the comparison of Mexican people to worms as an example of hate speech, in December they added the comparison of Muslims and pigs, and in February, trainers added that referring to transgender people as “it” rather than their preferred pronouns was hate speech.

Facebook told Motherboard in a statement that they evaluate “whether an individual or group should be designated as a hate figure or organization based on a number of different signals, such as whether they carried out or have called for violence against people based on race, religion or other protected categories.”