Associated Press: Why Does Facebook Fail To Fix Itself? It’s Partly Humans
"The question comes up over and over, with extremist material, hate speech, election meddling and privacy invasions. Why can’t Facebook just fix it? The latest revelation: Facebook is inadvertently creating celebratory videos using extremist content and auto-generating business pages for the likes of ISIS and Al Qaida. 'They have been frustratingly slow in dealing with everything from child sexual abuse to terrorism, white supremacy, bullying, nonconsensual porn' and things like allowing advertisers to target categories such as 'Jew hater,' simply because some users had listed the term as an 'interest,' said Hany Farid, a digital forensics expert at the University of California, Berkeley."
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