Yesterday Facebook started testing a new way to combat “hate speech” on their platform and I wrote a post explaining why I think it’s a very bad idea.

Some folks believed the strange “Does this post contain hate speech?” question that was displayed on every post in some users’ newsfeeds was simply a glitch and not something that Facebook was really testing.

Well, it was indeed a real test, but it was apparently rolled out prematurely and it quickly went off the rails.  [Read more…]

As you surely already know, the opinions and attitudes of Facebook users vary widely.

After all, with 1.5 billion users there are going to be people expressing opinions that don’t exactly match with those of other users.

Unfortunately, some of the views expressed in the posts, memes and videos can be quite offensive to some users.

But at what point does a post cross the line into what is commonly referred to nowadays as “hate speech”?

Well, Facebook has come up with a plan to find out, and they want you to help!

Starting today, some users are now seeing this question on every post that shows up in their newsfeed:  [Read more…]