Facebook accidentally flagged the Declaration of Independence

Facebook accidentally flagged the Declaration of Independence

6 years ago
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https://thenextweb.com/facebook/2018/07/05/facebook-accidentally-flagged-the-declaration-of-independence/

Facebook took down a post containing passages from the Declaration of Independence, saying they were hate speech. It has since apologized — though the algorithm may have been justified in flagging the material.

A Texas newspaper called the Liberty County Vindicator decided to celebrate July 4th by posting excerpts from the Declaration of Independence. The tenth post in this series, with paragraphs 27-31, was removed from the paper’s Facebook scheduling queue, with the paper being given the notice that it’d violated the hate speech standards.