Facebook reports spike in takedowns of hate speech, terrorism

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Facebook reports spike in takedowns of hate speech, terrorism
Facebook on Tuesday reported a sharp increase in the number of posts it removed for promoting violence and hate speech across its apps, which it attributed to technology improvements for automatically identifying text and images. The world's biggest social media company removed about 4.7 million ...

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