Hate Thy Neighbor: Online Hate in Local Communities

you look at the harms that people try to do through social networks, some are not very adaptively adversarial. For example, hate speech. People aren’t getting better at being racist.

while trying to help groups and activists report abusive content on Facebook, my team starts noticing that users appear to be using unofficial Facebook apps that don’t offer a reporting function.

One promising approach here is to allow people to flag fake or offensive content while training machine learning systems to spot it automatically.

We see it nowadays with demands to strip internet anonymity in an attempt to force people to suffer severe consequences for what they say online.

In To Save Everything, Click Here, Evgeny Morozov implores the reader to “inquire into how Facebook mediates the very conditions of authenticity, sometimes by erecting new barriers and constraints but, more often, by destroying them.”