Facebook denies report that its AI fails to detect hate speech

The Wall Street Journal’s report stated that Facebook employees estimated that the social media giant removes only a single digit percent of the posts that violates its rules.

Facebook has denied a report that claimed its AI technology used to detect hate speech or violence has little impact. A narrative that the technology is inadequate and it deliberately misrepresent the progress is false, the company said in a blog post.

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Facebook’s post follows a Wall Street Journal report that said Facebook’s AI cannot consistently identify first-person shooting videos, racist rants and even the difference between cockfighting and car crashes.