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FB didn't flag hate speech in India as it lacked Hindi, Bengali classifiers: Haugen
short by Sakshita Khosla / on Thursday, 7 October, 2021
Despite being aware that certain Facebook groups in India were promoting hate speech and fear-mongering, the social media company couldn't act due to a lack of Hindi and Bengali classifiers, a whistleblower has said. Ex-Facebook employee Frances Haugen claimed that such content on pages and users linked to RSS was "never flagged or actioned" due to a lack of classifiers.