The second installment in Facebook’s Hard Questions series of explanatory posts focuses on how the social network handles hate speech.
Vice president of Europe, Middle East and Asia public policy Richard Allan penned a long Newsroom post explaining the challenges Facebook faces in dealing with hate speech.
Allan outlined how Facebook defines hate speech:
Our current definition of hate speech is anything that directly attacks people based on what are known as their “protected characteristics”—race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity or serious disability or disease.
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