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by daenz 1748 days ago
A large and complex task is well suited for the talented people behind Facebook. But even a list of basic searches that exercised the engine would have caught this. No excuses imo, particularly since it happened to Google[0] not that long ago. Was nobody paying attention?

0. https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/12/16882408/google-racist-go...

1 comments

Maybe they thought it would be racist if they explicitly devised rules preventing black people being identified as primates.