Facebook Censoring Some Hebrew Posts Based on Machine Translations

Court documents obtained by Haaretz reveal that over 80 percent of a controversial academic’s posts were removed by the platform based on poor machine translations

Oct 30, 2018 10:07 PM

One of the most serious criticisms Facebook faced over its handling of hate speech against the Rohingya people in Myanmar concerned a lack of content moderators who could speak the local language.

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