In a blog post last June,YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki saidthe company’s hate speech policy “specifically bans videos alleging that a group is superior based on qualities like race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion.”...
Following up on the "Perspective" hate speech filtering experiment from 2017, one Alphabet's subsidiaries, Jigsaw, recently released a machine learning-powered tool designed to filter out "toxic" comments on high traffic sites. Out of curiosity, I downloaded the extension in a fresh Chrome... ...
This can also be true with hate speech. “Fake Engagement” The first restriction in the guidelines, Fake Engagement, is by far the most common complaint I see. “I don’t know this person! Remove this review!”– sound familiar? This is arguably the hardest policy violation to prove and...
A week of upheaval at Meta: DEI, hate speech, and politics. 01/11/2025 By Christianna Silva Google Maps will rename Gulf of Mexico to America following Trump's order The app will also change the name of North America's highest mountain to "Mount McKinley." 01/28/2025 By Amanda Ye...
By clicking Sign Me Up, you confirm you are 16+ and agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Also defined as inappropriate content under the policies is hate speech, with restrictions on apps that assert, theorize, or encourage the idea "that a protected group is inhuman, inferior ...
they have described this policy as a simple ban on "sexual content." This also covers "sex-related entertainment" as well, for those who were wondering. Google's definition of hate speech hasn't changed in this wave of policy updates but they have now included a list of common violations...
Hate speech: Don't submit reviews that advocate against groups of people based on their race or ethnic origin, nationality, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Violent language, terrorist content, or content intended to incite and encourage vio...
Google, FB fined over hate speech A Moscow court on Friday fined Google a record 7.2 billion rubles (US$98 million), while Meta (formerly Facebook) was fined 1.9 billion rubles for repeatedly failing to delete illegal content. “For the first time, a Russian court has imposed fines that ...
harassment. And when hate speech is written in veiled ways, with slang, or in non-English languages, classifiers can be easilyfooled. This is true for Perspective and for all classifiers, including those used by YouTube, Meta, and other companies to root out policy-violating speech on their...
COMMENT: You spread disinformation. Climate change exists and if we have to all lockdown to save the planet for two or three years, then that’s what we have to do. You are destroying our future. EH REPLY: Thank you for your hate mail. It’s nice to see how easy it is for small...