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Can Facebook use AI to fight online abuse?

  • Written by Daniel Lowd, Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon
It can be complicated to teach a computer to detect harassment and threats.Palto/Shutterstock.com

Facebook has released statistics on abusive behavior on its social media network, deleting more than 22 million posts for violating its rules against pornography and hate speech – and deleting or adding warnings about violence to another 3.5...

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