Facebook changing ‘race-blind’ hate speech policy: Report

Facebook is revising its hate speech algorithms to prioritise blocking slurs against Black people, Muslims and others that have historically faced discrimination, The Washington Post reported Thursday.

The change is set to alter the social network’s “so-called race-blind” system that has removed anti-white comments and excised innocuous comments by people of colour, the Post said.

The reform is at an early stage and aims to target speech deemed “the worst of the worst,” including slurs against Black people, Muslims, people of more than one race, the LGBTQ community and Jews, according to internal documents obtained by the newspaper.