Spotlight on Facebook Groups Affects Microsoft

NewsCloud writes "After Slashdot reported Facebook Exposes Advertisers To Hate Speech, the company removed its F**k Islam group for a day (it's back up now). According to the New York Times, 'Facebook declined to comment on Friday on the subject of hate speech or on what steps had been taken.' It turns out that Microsoft is the digital advertising provider for Facebook serving up ads for companies such as NetFlix, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon and Coca Cola. But for now, the Microsoft-served ads for all Facebook group home pages (even those complying with Facebook's Terms of Use) appear to have been taken off the site. For its part, NetFlix told me to address any concerns about its own ad placement along obscene speech with Facebook. T-Mobile said they would look into it."

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Double-edged sword

[notclevernickname]

Facebook is in a unique position here. If they start vetting groups based on "hate speech" or some other term, they will be accused of pandering to a bunch of whiney liberal bitches, resulting in a loss of popularity, and therefore, ad revenue. However, if they continue to allow these groups, the whiney liberal bitch types will whine to the advertisers, resulting in pulled ads, and lost revenue. My solution - incorporate a moderation system like the one on slashdot to filter out the dickwads. If they bitch, all you have to say is that you were not censoring them, that it was a community decision. And to the whiney liberal bitches, if they start complaining, all you have to do is tell them to get off their pot smoking asses and mod them down. They should probably limit this to groups, though. It would suck if one day you check your facebook profile and see that it had been moderated to -5: Geek whos probably still a virgin.........

Re:Definition of hate speech

[WilliamSChips]

Okay then, since words have no effect on you, I hope your entire family gets raped because you're (insert ethnic quality here). I'm kidding, but somebody else isn't.