NAACP calls for meeting with Zuckerberg after hate speech revelations on Facebook

[AZProgressive]

The NAACP is reportedly calling for a meeting with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, citing concerns of hate speech on the social media platform.

The move by the civil rights organization comes after former Facebook employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen told a Senate subcommittee Tuesday that a study showed the company had only taken action on 3 to 5 percent of hate speech on the platform.

"Vaccine hesitation, political violence and white supremacy are rampant," NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said in a statement, according to Bloomberg News, referring to the statistic. "Profiting on hate and disinformation is sickening and evil."

Facebook has argued that the study Haugen cited only accounts for hate speech that is automatically removed by the platform and not cases in which the hate speech is taken down after human review. It also stated that hate speech makes up less than 1 percent of the content on its platform, Bloomberg News noted.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/575493-naacp-calls-for-meeting-with-zuckerberg-after-hate-speech-revelations-on?amp

[blueinredohio]

1. My daughter is 45 but I believe between Facebook

and her dick of a husband she's been brainwashed. She used to be fairly liberal but has since jumped on the crazy train. I don't even go around very much anymore. It gets my blood pressure up and its not worth it.

[ret5hd]

2. "... less than 1 percent of the content on its platform..."

I would like to see a different analysis:

What percentage of “mass shared” stuff is racist/hate stuff. You know, leave out all the family pics, graduations, grandma’s recipes, etc.

What percentage of stuff that is received by say, I dunno…more than a hundred people is racist/hate? I bet it is a WAY higher percentage.