In other words, it’s a cynical exercise in abdication dressed as an act of responsibility. Assuming that’s Facebook’s deeper calculation — it’s hard to think of another — then it may wind up solving the company’s short-term problems. On the one hand, Facebook will be hosting the worst kinds of online behavior. On the other hand, Facebook is completing its transition from being a simple platform, broadly indifferent to the content it hosts, to being a publisher that curates and is responsible for content. Facebook has training documents governing hate speech, and is now set to deploy the latest generation of artificial intelligence to detect it.

Source: New York Times May 04, 2019 00:56 UTC